In the media
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Alex Brandsen and Bjørn Peare Bartholdy interviewed on Digital Scholarship Blog 29 March 2022The Leiden Digital Scholarship Blog explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go ab...
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Cut the tyranny of copy-and-paste with these coding tools 29 March 2022If you’ve written a scientific manuscript, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the app-switching two-step that happens when you copy your data ...
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How did we discover fire? 02 March 2022Controlling fire was a turning point in the development of human civilisation. But how did fire become part of the human toolkit? The BBC radio show C...
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Neanderthals changed ecosystems 125,000 years ago 15 December 2021Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden Uni...
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Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp in Discover Magazine on Neanderthal extinction 15 December 2021Scientists have long assumed Neanderthals simply lost the evolutionary race against humans. But their disappearance may be a bit more complex. In Disc...
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Faculty excavation featured on Cypriot news channel 23 August 2021The Chlorakas Palloures Excavation on Cyprus, run by Dr Bleda Düring, was featured on Cypriot national television. In the item Düring had the chance t...
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Colourful prehistoric ‘Chanel dress’ goes on show 13 August 2021The reconstruction of a dress worn in the Netherlands nearly 3000 years ago has gone on display in Oss, and shows that, contrary to popular opinion, w...
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Research by Leiden archaeologists in The Jordan Times 11 August 2021Recent fieldwork at the vast desert region in north-eastern Jordan has revealed an immensely rich heritage of an area that is difficult to access and ...
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A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world's oldest works of art, researchers say 15 July 2021The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a stu...
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Dr. Kuijpers in Science Magazine: 'This is a blow to the idea that elites were running the show' 30 June 2021A new study sugggests that through informal networks, Mesopotamian merchants established a standardized system of weights that later spread across Eur...
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Dr. Henry in Nature: How Ancient People Fell in Love with Carbs 30 June 2021In 2011, Dr. Amanda Henry published her findings from dental plaque picked from the teeth of Neanderthals who were buried in Iran and Belgium between ...
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Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in the Medieval Netherlands 30 June 2021Until very recently malaria was an impactful disease in the Netherlands. While currently mainly regarded as a tropical disease, references to symptoms...
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Podcast Finally Friday with ancient-fire expert Femke Reidsma 02 June 2021Pyrotechnology – the manipulation and control of fire – is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, and has impacted nearly every technology t...
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Karsten Lambers in Vice: 'Whoever built those geoglyphs was unaware of their relative size on a global scale' 02 June 2021Geoglyphs decorate the ground near the town of Boha, India, and add up a total distance of about 30 miles. They were discovered by Carlo and Yohann Oe...
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Dr. Andrew Sorensen at University of the Netherlands: Lecture on Ancient Fire-Use 27 May 2021When is the last time you made a fire? Not light a candle with a match, but an actual fire from scratch. Thousands of years ago, humans already made f...