Jingjing Cao is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI techniques that offer new opportunities in both developed and developing countries. Webb is a professor at the Radiology Department of the LUMC and,…

In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492.

Insights in diet, climate and ecology

Prof. Andrea Evers is a health psychologist who studies the role of behavioural factors in health and disease. As a Medical Delta Professor, she is now affiliated with Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University. In that position, she conducts research at the intersection of various disciplines.…

New name of the Computer Applications group

Prof. Marcel Reinders is a data science specialist at Delft University of technology. Using smart algorithms, he searches for links in complex data. For example, he studies patterns in DNA that lead to aberrant cell behaviour. This knowledge will help detect serious diseases such as Alzheimer's and…

Richard Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of 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.

Medical Delta has appointed seven professors who will bridge the medical worlds of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam.

How did Angkor interact with regional urban centers? How did the settlement system impact the society's agricultural system and regional resilience?

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,…

Nico Staring is an archaeologist specialising in pharaonic Egyptian archaeology, art and material culture, especially of the Late Bronze Age (New Kingdom, c. 1539-1078 BCE). The main focus of his research is on the Memphite necropolis at Saqqara near modern-day Cairo, where he also conducts archaeological…

What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?

Igor Djakovic is a PhD candidate in the Neanderthal Legacy research project.

Amanda Henry is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology and a Special Professor for

Innovating objects in a Eurasian center of the Late Hellenistic period.

Agnes Schneider is a PhD candidate at the department of Archaeological Sciences.

Imprint of Action is the first large-scale study focussing entirely on sociocultural impact in archaeology and, as such, is explorative in nature; it provides unique insights into the workings of interaction and participation in archaeological events, and openly shares qualitative and quantitative research…

ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)

This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book focus on concepts and themes that analyse Soviet ageing…

Promotor: J.M. van den Broek Co-promotor: M.C. de Vries

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Bleda Düring is a Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Nicky Schreuder is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Andrea Richards is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Floris Keehnen is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

NEARCH aims to explore the different dimensions of public participation in contemporary archaeology and uncover new ways to work and collaborate within this field of expertise.

TruLife applies lessons from the study of long-term urban traditions, exemplified by pre-Columbian Maya tropical cities, to present-day sustainable urban design.

A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia

This dissertation develops an innovative approach to cultural transformation in the kingdom of Commagene (modern south-east Turkey) during the 1st c. BCE, focusing on a palatial context in the capital Samosata.

The arrival of Columbus to the Caribbean in 1492 marked a milestone in world history. In both the European and the indigenous world, a set of economic, political and hierarchical networks and relations were defined, structured and changed. These changes affected the indigenous population at different…

This thesis explores the value of cultural and archaeological heritage through a focus on multinational corporations (MNCs) across industries and their involvement with cultural heritage.

The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 500-1500)

The funerary textile tradition from the Osmore Valley, South Peru, and its social-political implications (2005)

This collection of papers was compiled in celebration of the remarkable academic career of Professor Wil Roebroeks, who has established himself as one of Europe’s leading figures in Palaeolithic archaeology over the past three decades and founded the Human origins research group at Leiden University…

A Spatial Enquiry into the Urban Society of Rome’s Imperial Port-Town

Eine Analyse materieller Kultur römischer Kolonien in der Mikroregion von Suessa Aurunca, Minturnae und Sinuessa

A functional study of chert artefacts from preceramic sites in Colombia (2002)

Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE

Crossing borders and connecting people in archaeological heritage management. Essays in honour of prof. Willem J.H. Willems

A Functional Analysis of Pre-Columbian Shell and Stone Artefacts from Anse à la Gourde and Morel, Guadeloupe, FWI

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire four remarkable medical manuscripts partly thanks to support from the Friends of Leiden University Libraries, the Pieter van Foreest Stichting and the Van de Sande Fonds. All four are largely written in Dutch and can be dated between 1595 and…