309 search results for “ancient dna” in the Student website
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several successive population dispersals that originated on the American mainland.
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Ancient DNA study reveals large scale migrations into Bronze Age Britain
A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals. Publication in Nature on December 22, 2021.
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Jac AartsFaculteit Archeologie
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Archaeological explorations in Jordan unveil traces of ancient caravan routes
Systematic aerial surveys carried out in Jordan’s Eastern Badia region since 1998 and about 10 years of simplified satellite image analysis have led to the discovery of multiple prehistoric sites, according to archaeologist Peter Akkermans. The Jordan Times interviewed him about the new insights.
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Ethical guidelines to better regulate DNA research on human remains
Rapid developments in DNA techniques allow researchers to find out more and more about human genetics. An international group of scientists has drawn up five ethical guidelines to ensure that this DNA research is better regulated. Leiden archaeologist Marie Soressi – one of the signatories - explains…
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Beilun ZhaoScience
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Sam BoerlijstScience
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Kevin GroenScience
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
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Maarja SeireFaculty of Humanities
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Cornelis van TilburgFaculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte KeukenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Paul BeliënFaculty of Humanities
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Da JinFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History
The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Classics and Ancient History.
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New series of Ancient World Lunch Talks
Research
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Louie KrolScience
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Lucy Bennison-ChapmanFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien van ZoestFaculty of Humanities
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Leanne JansenFaculty of Humanities
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Berkel receives Vidi for research into economics and anthropology in ancient Greece
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel has obtained a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will enable her to research the image of man that emerges from economic texts from ancient Greece.
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Ben HaringFaculty of Humanities
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Anita KeizersUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Roosmarie VlaskampFaculteit Archeologie
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Oliver TuazonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kat StewartScience
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Sylvia de PaterScience
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KNIR Field School: Exploring Mountain Society in Ancient Samnium
Education
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Patrick van den BergScience
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Innovative research offers new insight into ancient infant feeding practices
New sampling and analytical strategies give archaeologists a better understanding of the nutrition and survival of ancient populations. Publication in PLOS One.
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights
Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of Assyrian sites, they are not really trying to address this broader picture of imperialism and how this imperialisation actually worked.’ These imperialisation…
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Podcast Finally Friday with ancient-fire expert Femke Reidsma
Pyrotechnology – the manipulation and control of fire – is one of the defining characteristics of humanity, and has impacted nearly every technology that we used in the past and study archaeologically in the present. Our PhD researcher Femke Reidsma joined EXARC's podcast for May’s #FinallyFriday to…
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Paul HooykaasScience
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Irene VikatouFaculteit Archeologie
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Maria ZisimopoulouFaculty of Humanities
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Patrick GouwUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Hakan KülcüFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Diederik MeijerFaculteit Archeologie