380 search results for “paleolithic archaeology” in the Student website
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Caribbean archaeology in times of corona: ‘Instead of fieldwork, our students worked on an online exhibition’
Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both the application process as well as the start of the project were challenged by the limitations set by Covid-19. ‘As a preparation we travelled through the…
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Archaeology students Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse receive NVFA incentive prize for Allard Pierson Museum internship.
Research Master’s students in Archaeology Rosa Seepma and Aida Tadesse received an Incentive Prize from the Dutch Association for Physical Anthropology (NVFA). They were awarded this honor for their ongoing study on the human osteology collection at the Allard Pierson Museum.
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Impacting policy through the Faculty Council Archaeology: ‘we are working on the wellbeing of students’
The Faculty Council is the most important co-participatory body of the Faculty of Archaeology. Its members represent staff and students in meetings with the Faculty Board, and they can have a profound impact on the Faculty's policies. We speak with the council's chair, Merlijn Veltman, about the goals…
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Archaeology students follow Bystander Intervention & Consent training: ‘We're better for having had it.’
In the past months all Leiden Archaeology students were asked to partake in the Bystander Intervention & Consent training. These workshops teach people how to recognise and safely intervene in situations they feel the need to act upon. We speak with two students who participated about their experien…
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Excavation of Roman villa on Mallorca covered by Catalan and Spanish news outlets
The Villa Son Sard archaeological project aims to determine the boundaries of the Roman and post-Roman villa at Son Sard on Mallorca. While the team was excavating in the summer of 2023, several news outlets covered the findings.
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Meet the new Board Secretaries at Archaeology: ‘This is the game I want to play a role in’
With the departure of Janneke Mulders as Board Secretary of the Faculty of Archaeology, Hilde Adriaenssens has been enlisted as an interim until the new Secretary, Mischa Hautvast, starts in January. We sat down with both to get a clear picture of their activities and backgrounds.
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Lasse van den Dikkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Harry Fokkens
Faculteit Archeologie
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Florian Helmecke
Faculteit Archeologie
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Archaeology Student Assessor Imen el Idrissi reflects on the upcoming academic year
Education, Organisation
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…
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Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…
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Byzantine consumers focal point of a new publication
Recently Professor Joanita Vroom’s book Feeding the Byzantine City was published by the prominent academic publishing house Brepols. This volume is the fifth in a series called Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology, of which she is the editor. ‘This series aims to offer new perspectives…
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past
Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Milco Wansleeben
Faculteit Archeologie
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tijm Lanjouw
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eduard Pop
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Joanne Mol
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Valentina Azzarà
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sam Botan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Arturo García De León
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marie Kolbenstetter
Faculteit Archeologie
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Archaeologist Ann Brysbaert appointed as director of Netherlands Institute at Athens
On March 1 2022, Professor Ann Brysbaert will succeed Dr Winfred van de Put as director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA). Having been a regular at the institute for several decades, she will combine her new appointment with teaching at the Faculty of Archaeology. ‘Visits at the NIA were…
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Paleonerds Lecture: Visual Palaeopsychology
Lecture
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Experimental Archaeology Days
Festival
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The Future of Archaeology
Debate
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(Inter)National Archaeologies
Lecture, Week of the International Student
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Introduction Day Archaeology
Study information
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Graduation Ceremony Bachelor Archaeology
Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony MA Archaeology
Ceremony
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Graduation Ceremony Bachelor Archaeology
Ceremony
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Master Graduation Ceremony Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Master Graduation Ceremony Archaeology
Graduation Ceremony
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Shaping the future with stories from the past
An archaeologist as a modern-day shaman. An unexpected comparison Professor by Special Appointment of Public Archaeology Luc Amkreutz will make in his inaugural lecture.
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New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
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