233 search results for “human origins” in the Student website
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Alexander VerpoorteFaculteit Archeologie
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Amanda HenryFaculteit Archeologie
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Morgan RousselFaculteit Archeologie
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José JoordensFaculteit Archeologie
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Viola SchmidFaculteit Archeologie
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Femke ReidsmaFaculteit Archeologie
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Igor DjakovicFaculteit Archeologie
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Anastasia NikulinaFaculteit Archeologie
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Andrew SorensenFaculteit Archeologie
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Wei ChuFaculteit Archeologie
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Wil RoebroeksFaculteit Archeologie
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Jac AartsFaculteit Archeologie
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Irini SifogeorgakisFaculteit Archeologie
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Fulco ScherjonFaculteit Archeologie
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Jean-Jacques HublinFaculteit Archeologie
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Yannick Raczynski-HenkFaculteit Archeologie
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Prestigious Gutenberg Research Award for archaeologist Wil Roebroeks
Leiden archaeologist Professor Wil Roebroeks receives the 2021 Gutenberg Research Award of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). "By granting Wil Roebroeks the 2021 Gutenberg Research Award, we are honoring his extraordinary contributions to paleoanthropology through his field research, his interdisciplinary…
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Marie Soressi produces documentary on Neandertal Legacy
The genetic material of currently living Europeans is partly of Neandertal origin. Were our ancestors successful because they were hybridising and interacting with the local populations they encountered when migrating into new places? This subject takes centre stage in a beautiful documentary produced…
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Ancient fire expert Femke Reidsma on Tea-Break Time Travel Podcast
In her podcast Tea-Break Time Travel Matilda Siebrecht is joined by fire expert Femke Reidsma, to talk all about how this essential tool was made and used by our ancient human ancestors. How can you recognise an ancient hearth? Why is it so important to study the first use of fire? When was the first…
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Archaeologist Andy Sorensen in National Geographic Magazine about ancient fire use
When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that question. In the February edition of the Dutch language version of National Geographic Magazine his research features in the section The Discovery.
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Archaeologist Wei Chu explores Carpathian caves with Gerda Henkel grant
Recently, archaeologist Dr Wei Chu received a grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung for an excavation in the Carpathian Mountains. Originally planning for an excavation in Ukraine, his plans were disrupted by the war. ‘We had to change plans really quickly.’
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine
At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist Wei Chu would have visited the site in summer 2022, were it not for the war. Now he has received funding from SNMAP with the aim to better establish the…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
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Neandertal Legacy Scientific Reports’ article in the top 100 most downloaded
With an off-the-charts number of downloads, outstanding media coverage, and more than 300 tweets, a small team behind the Scientific Reports article led by a Leiden PhD Igor Djakovic is living every researcher’s dream.
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants takes news outlets by storm
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal. The breakthrough takes…
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Looking for the earliest European home with an ERC Consolidator Grant
During the Late Pleistocene, Europe was a cold and unforgiving place to live. Even so, groups of early modern humans roamed around, just like their Neanderthal counterparts. It is unclear what kind of dwellings these people inhabited to shelter them against the elements, especially in regions without…
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Marie SoressiFaculteit Archeologie
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Sustainable Humanities Internship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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Humanities Lab - Application procedure
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Sustainable Humanities Scholarship
Bachelor, Master
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Rebecca van der HamFaculteit Archeologie
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Monica ChegeScience
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Nicky van de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Rick LawsonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Cora LederFaculteit Archeologie
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Caroline ArchambaultFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Narin IdrizFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vasiliki KostaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerrit Dusseldorp joins Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme: ‘Archaeologists can provide the time-depth perspective’
With the retirement of Wil Roebroeks, Gerrit Dusseldorp will take his place as the archaeological representative in the Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme as an Associate Professor. An expert on the behaviour of early human hunter-gatherers, he will look at the interaction between humans and…
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Julian SteinkeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Dan SaxonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Mélie Louys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ieke de VriesFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Linda LouisFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid