1,259 search results for “urban archaeology” in the Public website
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Rooswijk 1740
Een scheepswrak, zijn bemanning en het leven in de 18de eeuw
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research with schools and communities on the impact of climate change and urban pollution on birds and their breeding cycle
The NestWacht project is a Citizen Science collaboration between Science Centre Delft, Naturalis, and the Citizen Science Lab of Leiden University to engage individuals, families and primary schools in Leiden and Delft in scientific research on the impact of climate change on nature in their city, and…
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Katherinne Guerra Cheva
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Niochet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Angus Martin
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jason Laffoon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Merel Brüning
Faculteit Archeologie
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Digital Archaeology
New name of the Computer Applications group
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A landscape biography of the 'Land of Drumlins': Vooremaa, East Estonia
In the contemporary myriad of definitions and approaches of landscape, the starting points and limits of the concept of landscape biography are being explored, but also tested in this thesis. What exactly is a landscape biography? What does it constitute of? Is landscape biography just a narration of…
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Spatial analysis of cultural landscapes through remote and close range sensing data
What workflow of non-destructive techniques provides accurate, valuable data to improve our understanding of Caribbean archaeological landscapes? How were Amerindian settlements configured?
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Stoepplantjes (Pavement plants)
In our lives we often have little attention or appreciation for plants, let alone the ones we commonly call weeds. This inattention for plants has been described as plant blindness. The Stoepplantjes project aspires to decrease plant blindness by changing the image of weeds and using citizen science.…
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Met de voeten in het water
Publication on the excavations at Roman fort Matilo in Leiden
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Koriabo; From the Caribbean Sea to the Amazon River
This book is about the archaeology of indigenous peoples who thrived across the Caribbean, the Guianas, and the Lower Amazon basin just before the European invasion, and who also remained central to the early history of conquest and colonization.
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From Golden Rock to Historic Gem
Through extensive archaeological and documentary research, this study aims to provide a detailed analysis of the maritime cultural landscape of St. Eustatius over the past four centuries. It focuses on bridging the gap between the marine and terrestrial worlds and demonstrates that in order to truly…
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Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.
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Cities of the Roman Near East
The main objective of this research is to map out the cities of the Roman Near East in the imperial period, with a focus on location, city size and urban features, in order to study the form the urban system and its levels of integration.
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The Minor Centres Project
This five year research project aimed to investigate the role of minor central places in the economy of Roman Central Italy.
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Osteoarchaeology in historical context
Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conjunction with the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the person’s environment and burial conditions. While osteoarchaeological research is common in…
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From scarcity to abundance: big data in archaeology
New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Computer Science, tells us all about it.
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Agnes Schneider
Faculteit Archeologie
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Morgan Roussel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Devon Graves
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roeland Emaus
Faculteit Archeologie
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Verleden als leidraad: ijzertijdbewoning en landschapsinrichting in noord-oostelijk Noord-Brabant in verleden én heden
For a long time it has been thought that habitation and landscape organisation only changed significantly from the Roman Period onwards. However, many developments were already started long before Julius Caesar's Roman armies arrived in the southern Netherlands.
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Tim Claerhout
Science
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Rita de Sousa e Silva
Science
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Janneke van Oorschot
Science
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Athanasios Moraitis
Science
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To Be Led Astray?
The Effects of the 1881 Liquor Act on the Leiden Alcohol Trade
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Urban Trail: entrants given the run of Wijnhaven
Not a straight road in sight, but instead a route through buildings, alleyways and gardens that aren't usually open to the public. As in previous years, the KLM Urban Trail took the entrants to the prettiest spots in The Hague. And this year, it took them right through our Wijnhaven building.
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Dean Archaeology Corinne Hofman Member of Academia Europaea
The 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 of Archaeology is one of a number of eminent international scholars from across the continent of Europe who were invited to accept membership in 2016,…
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Over lokalisme, liefdewerk en lonkend perspectief: Verkenning naar participatie en burgerinitiatief in de Nederlandse archeologie.
Dit rapport maakt deel uit van het project Receptenboek burgerparticipatie in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) en met steun van het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.
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‘Non-Istanbulites’ of Istanbul: Quest for a place in Istanbul in the Turkish novel since the 1960s
This research focuses on a historical/social analysis of a selected corpus of novels from modern Turkish literature which have the common theme of migration from Anatolian towns and villages to Istanbul, and the immigrants’ struggle in this city against various exclusion mechanisms.
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Danielle Chevalier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Chen Wang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Analysis of 13C and 15N isotopes from Eurasian Quaternary fossils
Insights in diet, climate and ecology
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious
Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) shows that there is still a long way to go. For the report, the Institute of Environmental Sciences…
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Nienke Beets
Science
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Lifestyle Enclaves in the Instagram City?
Commentators and scholars view both social media and cities as sites of fragmentation. Since both urban dwellers and social media users tend to form assortative social ties, so the reasoning goes, identity-based divisions are fortified and polarization is exacerbated in digital and urban spaces.
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Den Haag Draait Door: working together to solve urban problems
On Thursday the 29th of October, Kennis Maken Den Haag organises the third edition of Den Haag Draait Door. In this online talk show, experts and policymakers will discuss problems that exist in the city of The Hague. During this edition, as usual, students, researchers and residents from the region…
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René van Walsem
Faculty of Humanities
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Mink van IJzendoorn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ivo van Wijk
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tracing interactions in the indigenous Caribbean through a biographical approach
Much attention has been paid to the exchange of objects, ideas, and people in the Caribbean. Networks of interaction connected local communities across pan-regional scales, shaping indigenous socio-political integrations and their responses in colonial situations. This work examines the poorly understood…
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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The Van Loon Project
The Van Loon project sets out to safeguard the archives of Dutch archaeologist Maurits van Loon (Amsterdam, September 22, 1923 - Montpellier, October 12, 2006) and make them accessible for further study.