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Archaeology student Ivo Verheijen wins award with internship report21 November 2016Our student Ivo Verheijen won an award with his excellent report on his internship studying mammoths in Northern Siberia. This Thursday he will give a...
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Dean Archaeology Corinne Hofman Member of Academia Europaea15 September 2016The Council of the Academia Europaea (AE) has announced prof.dr. Corinne Hofman as one of the new Academy members. Corinne Hofman, Dean of the Faculty...
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ERC grants for Leiden scientists06 September 2016Leiden research on psychology and archaeology will boosted by two subsidies. Both research projects focus on children.
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Shumon Hussain wins EAA Student Award31 August 2016The 2016 EAA student award was won by Leiden Archaeology PhD candidate Shumon Hussain.
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Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds winner - Marcus Adrian Roxburgh22 June 2016His PhD research project - entitled Charlemagne's Workshops - is an ongoing investigation into the role of copper-alloy craft production in the early ...
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Archaeology at Leiden University in Top 10 of QS World University Rankings 201622 March 2016The Faculty of Archaeology ranks as the best in continental Europe and is in the top ten of the world. The Faculty of Archaeology hosts a successful m...
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Should we close our borders? Not according to the Classical World!09 March 2016Leiden University archaeologists receive multiple awards for research on interaction between the Greek and Roman world and ‘The East’
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VICI Award for Miguel John Versluys16 February 2016Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology) has been awarded a prestigious Vici grant for his project: "Innovating objects. The agency of global connection...
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Paul Kozowyk wins 2nd/3rd prize Leiden University Thesis Awards13 February 2016Leiden University 2016 thesis awards were awarded to Kaspar Pucek (History), Mariska Meijer (Bio Medical Sciences) and Paul Kozowyk (Archaeology).
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Chiara Piccoli winner of the Nick Ryan Bursary 201516 April 2015
To honour the work of its longstanding chair Nick Ryan, CAA International provides the annual Nick Ryan Bursary. The Nick Ryan Bursary is chosen from ...
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Digging for people and means in Mycenaean Greece15 April 2015
In the 13th century BC, Mycenaean Greece was the stage for ambitious monumental building programmes. How were people and means deployed, and with what...
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Thesis prize for Nathalie Brusgaard09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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Second prize for Nathalie Brusgaard09 March 2015
Nathalie Brusgaard has won second prize (€ 2.000) in the Leiden University Thesis Prizes 2015 with her thesis 'The Social Significance of Cattle in Br...
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VICI Grant for Dr. David Fontijn16 February 2015
The subsidy funds new research into the: Economies of Destruction. The emergence of metalwork deposition during the Bronze Age in Northwest Europe, c....
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EUR 15 million for excellent archaeological research into the colonisation of the Americas21 October 2014
Corinne Hofman (Professor in Caribbean Archaeology) has been awarded 15 million euro by the EU for her archaeological research on the colonisation of ...