William Pestle and Jason Laffoon recently published a new article entitled 'Quantitative paleodietary reconstruction with complex foodwebs: An isotopic case study from the Caribbean' in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Read about it below!
Mariana de Campos Françoso and Amy Strecker published a new article in the International Journal of Cultural Property last week entitled 'Caribbean Collections in European Museums and the Question of Returns'. Read the abstract below!
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On the 24th of November 2017 Kirsten Ziesemer gave a talk at TedxHaarlem! The overarching theme of TedxHaarlem was focused on generation mix and what's cooler than going back more than a few generations, all the way to 1492?
During the summer months of 2018 Nexus1492 and the Caribbean Research group and at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University will be conducting several exciting field schools across the Americas. We are looking for enthusiastic students to join our team! Read about the projects here and apply now!
Jorge Ulloa Hung and Till Sonneman recently published a new article in Ciencia y Sociedad (published by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo) entitled "Exploraciones arqueológicas en la Fortaleza de Santo Tomás de Jánico: nuevos aportes a su comprensión histórica" Read the abstract below!
Till F. Sonnemann, Douglas C. Comer, Jesse L. Patsolic, William P. Megarry, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Corinne L. Hofman have published a new article in Geosciences entitled "Semi-Automatic Detection of Indigenous Settlement Features on Hispaniola through Remote Sensing Data". Read the abstract below!
Archaeologists are, for the most part, restricted to studying material culture to understand the past. This means that an important archaeological question is whether the meaning archaeologists attribute to artefacts corresponds to the meaning it had to the people who produced it.
The first Dutch National Post-Doc Prize was awarded to Dr. Hayley Mickleburgh, postdoctoral researcher in the field of funerary archaeology with ERC-Synergy NEXUS1492 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
The 4th Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) meeting was held at the Faculty of Archaeology on 20 November. Ambassadors and representatives from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region met with the Leiden LAC region group to strengthen academic cooperation and discuss the internationalisation strategy of Leiden University.
