Second prize for Nathalie Brusgaard
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Bronze Age North-Western Europe'
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In her thesis, Brusgaard reconstructs the role of cattle in Bronze Age society. Her elaborate research focuses on the social significance of cattle. Exploration of tree lines of evidence result in a thesis that stands out for its theoretical depth and clever combination of methods. Her supervisor, Professor Fokkens, graded this thesis with a 10. Brusgaard, a Danish national, was sponsored by the LUF Internationaal StudieFonds (LISF).