218 search results for “early hominin” in the Student website
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Jef SchaepsLeiden University Libraries
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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The Expansion of Sugar Plantations in Early Modern Java, c. 1740-1780
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Keynote Address: The Kindness of Others: Jews, Christians and Early Childhood Care in Medieval Europe
Lecture
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New publication investigates curious shift of 7th century burial practices
At the end of the 7th century something curious occurs in Northwestern Europe. Suddenly, people start burying the dead next to their dwellings instead of in communal cemeteries. Professor Frans Theuws recently published a book on this phenomenon. ‘We wanted to know if the study of these farmyard burials…
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“Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935
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In Memoriam: Katharine MacDonald (1976-2022)
Our dear colleague and friend Kathy MacDonald passed away unexpectedly on August 9th, 2022, a few days after her 46th birthday. Her sudden passing came as a tremendous shock to her colleagues and friends at the Faculty of Archaeology and to colleagues and former students both in The Netherlands and…
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New research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Homo erectus from the sea: new discoveries from the Sunda Shelf
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Annelieke HagenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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and their Use: Circulation of Knowledge and Imperial Appropriation in Early and Mid-Qing China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Suzanne KlareFaculty of Humanities
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Carlotta RiebleFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien UrbanusFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Stefanie van Goozen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Eiko FriedFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Ricarda ProppertFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Andrea Reyes ElizondoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’
We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we are today. This is what Marie Soressi, Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology, will argue in her inaugural…
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Hanna Swaab
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Looking inside the tent: questions for deep history
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Anika BexkensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Louis VerrethFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities