13 search results for “paleolithic” in the Student website
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Alexander Verpoorte
Faculteit Archeologie
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Cora Leder
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Niochet investigates intercultural connectivity in the deep past with an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant
For already two years, Vincent Niochet has been affiliated with the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology as an external PhD candidate. Now, he has been awarded an NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant, allowing him to continue his research as a paid PhD staff member. ‘The past two years have been quite challenging,…
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Irini Sifogeorgakis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Aitor Burguet-Coca
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Niochet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article
In the article “Neanderthals and Us: We’re More Alike Than Once Thought”, we are reminded that many negative traits, from unintelligent to unsophisticated, have long been attributed to Neanderthals in popular culture. However, recent studies bring to light an ever-increasing amount of evidence contradicting…
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Possibly the oldest known piece of figurative art found in Indonesia
A team of researchers has dated a prehistoric painting in Indonesia to at least 51.200 years ago, they have proposed in a study that this painting is the oldest known example of “figurative” art.
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Organising a sustainable academic event at Archaeology: ‘You will be surprised how many people actually enjoy it’
At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…
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Paleonerds Lecture: Visual Palaeopsychology
Lecture
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Cultural continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture