259 search results for “early hominin” in the Student website
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Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia
Conference
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Wei Ping YoungFaculty of Archaeology
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exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins
Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier hominins. In a study now published in Scientific Reports, a team of German and Dutch archaeologists present new data that contradict this view of Lower…
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago
Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much further. A study by archaeologists at Leiden University on the use of fire shows that 400,000 years ago knowledge and skills must already have been exchanged…
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Amanda Henry appointed Full Professor in Evolution of Hominin Diets
As of 1 September, archaeologist Amanda Henry has been appointed Full Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, where she will hold the chair in Evolution in Hominin Diets. The appointment marks a new chapter in her academic journey, building on her longstanding research into ancient human diets and…
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Thijs van KolfschotenFaculty of Archaeology
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Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
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Mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
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Mette LangbroekFaculty of Archaeology
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Dusan MaczekFaculty of Archaeology
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Franciscus TheuwsFaculty of Archaeology
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Rik SchalbroeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van UitertFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
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Jos BazelmansFaculty of Archaeology
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Joanne MouthaanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Leonie VreekeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jip BarreveldFaculty of Archaeology
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Weishuo LiFaculty of Archaeology
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant
A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on how Europe developed after the fall of the Roman Empire with special attention to the yet underexplored but undoubtedly important…
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Femke LippokFaculty of Archaeology
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Jorrit KelderFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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Why early detection of bone disorders matters
As a professor, Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra understands better than anyone how important it is to recognise bone and mineral conditions at an early stage. She emphasises the importance of flexibility and collaboration for better care, groundbreaking research and strong education.
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Children develop prejudice at an early age
Children in the Netherlands develop prejudices based on ethnicity at an early age. Ymke de Bruijn (27) came to this conclusion in her dissertation ‘Child Interethnic Prejudice in the Netherlands: Social Learning from Parents and Picture Books’. For her PhD project she took a closer look at the behaviours…
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High diversity in lifeways among early Caribbean inhabitants
The first settlers of the Caribbean have long been regarded as bands of highly mobile groups who subsisted exclusively by hunting, gathering, and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been increasing evidence for the cultivation of domesticated plants by early groups and a lower degree of mobility…
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Wei ChuFaculty of Archaeology
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Millet isotopes reveal advanced agriculture in early imperial China
A new study reveals how ancient Chinese farmers managed soil fertility and water resources over thousands of years. By analyzing carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in millet crops, the research provides long-term isotopic evidence of farmland management practices in the Guanzhong Basin—the political…
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Robert PittFaculty of Humanities
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Astronomers see birth cluster of galaxies in early universe
An international team of astronomers has discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the cluster-in-formation around the Spiderweb Galaxy. Based partly on that hot gas, the astronomers predict that the cluster-in-formation will grow into one of the largest objects in the universe. A step closer to discovering…
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Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central Europe
People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa in a PLOS ONE article published on 20 January.