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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’ 17 August 2021Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe' 01 October 2020The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. L...
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Rachel Schats’ Leiden Experience: ‘I want to contribute to human history and human health.’ 01 August 2019Rachel Schats has been a familiar face at the Faculty of Archaeology since she started her bachelor’s in Archaeology in 2005. Now she is an assistant ...
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A small ode to 412 dead 14 June 2019In 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and sk...
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800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved 30 April 2019Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite hi...
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About 350 human skeletons from Arnhem come to Leiden on loan 19 October 2018Leiden Archaeology students may write their master's theses on the recently acquired collection skeletons from the city of Arnhem. We interviewed oste...
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Leiden archaeologist discovers unique ancient horse grave in Sudan 25 April 2018A unique archeological find near Tombos in Northern Sudan. Archaeologist Sarah Schrader from Leiden University, working with a team of international r...
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Sarah Schrader to head the Osteoarchaeology lab 09 April 2018Since August 2017, dr. Sarah Schrader is working at the Faculty of Archaeology in the department of Archaeological Sciences. Her expertise is human os...
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Neandertal genome from Les Cottés site sequenced 27 March 2018On March 21 2018, a study was published in Nature, co-authored by Professor M. Soressi from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, announcin...
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Traces of indigenous "Taíno" found in present-day Caribbean populations 22 February 2018A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called "Taíno", the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European...
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Dental analysis gives unique insight in life of enslaved African 15 February 2018A new study published in Archaeometry describes the unexpected results obtained from analyses of five human teeth discovered in a ritual cache at an ...
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Skull 'oldest Dutchman' retrieved from North Sea bed 14 February 2018A fragment of a human skull from the collection of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) and a decorated bison bone, both from the North Sea ...
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Wearing clogs may have caused foot problems 27 November 2017Research by bioarchaeologists from Leiden and Canada has shown that 19th-century Dutch farmers regularly had bone defects. These may have been caused ...
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Old protein distinguishes bone fragments of Neanderthals 15 May 2017Bone remains that are thousands of years old are often too fragmented to be identified. PhD candidate Frido Welker is the first person to be able to d...
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New method of determining geographic origin of humans 23 February 2017Leiden researchers have developed a new method of determining the geographic origin of humans. Archaeologist Jason Laffoon and his team used the techn...