101 search results for “early hominins” in the Student website
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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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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs van KolfschotenFaculteit Archeologie
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Sanne de VetFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ivo van WijkFaculteit Archeologie
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Mette LangbroekFaculteit Archeologie
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Dusan MaczekFaculteit Archeologie
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Joanne MouthaanFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leonie VreekeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Frans TheuwsFaculteit Archeologie
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Gerhard de KokFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Ekaterina (Kate) PukhovaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van UitertFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew SorensenFaculteit Archeologie
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Jip BarreveldFaculteit Archeologie
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Wei ChuFaculteit Archeologie
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Beatriz Santiago BelmonteFaculty of Humanities
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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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Judith PollmannFaculty 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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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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Nina KomrijFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Weishuo LiFaculteit Archeologie
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Elise Swart
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Esther van den Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BaarFaculty 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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An Early Start: Welcoming the Class of 2024!
Although the official start of the academic year has to wait for another fortnight, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) welcomed the Class of 2024 to the Anna van Bueren campus this week. The new cohort of 204 incoming students will spend the next three years studying different majors and minors…
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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.
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Leiden archaeologists in international media on early form of money in the Bronze Age
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. The discovery led to a surge of media reports.
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.