101 search results for “bronze age” in the Student website
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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Negotiating change in the Aegean Bronze Age
Research
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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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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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Maikel Kuijpers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jingjing Cao
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sabrina Autenrieth
Faculteit Archeologie
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Riia Timonen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leah Powell
Faculteit Archeologie
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Valerio Gentile
Faculteit Archeologie
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Harry Fokkens
Faculteit Archeologie
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Lasse van den Dikkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Novel approaches to delay ageing and age-related diseases
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Anna Corwin - Embracing Age
Lecture, Online webinar
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Mobility, migrations, and knowledge exchange between late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Europe and the Near East (CA 1600-800 BC)
Conference
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Rosa van der Mast
Faculteit Geneeskunde
- Unfolding Finitudes: Current Ethnographies of Aging, Dying and End-of-Life Care | Online Webinar Series
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Investigating a prehistoric Pan-European culture with an NWO grant: ‘One of the most transformative periods in European prehistory’
Archaeologist Quentin Bourgeois received an NWO Vidi grant to investigate the emergence of a pan-European culture in the third millennium BC. ‘We see ideas being shared across the entire continent in pre-literate societies. And not only that, for a thousand years, the same cultural ideas persist.’
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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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Lecture Simone van der Hof on age verification and age appropriate design
On 6 October 2021, Simone van der Hof gave a lecture on age verification and age appropriate design.
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Blogging about the Middle Ages: love magic, face masks and video games
Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about the Middle Ages in a fun and interesting way. Editors Jip Barreveld, Marlisa den Hartog and Thijs Porck talk about the blog and why the Middle Ages are…
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Wenyu Wan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…
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How Stone Age Humans Unlocked the Glucose in Plants
Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants were just as key to their survival. Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last Ice Age, Leiden archaeologist Amanda Henry tells Horizon…
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Viola Schmid
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marije Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Julia van den Berg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ilse Schuitema
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: bachelor's student Jeroen Huizer's story
Second year BA Archaeology student Jeroen Huizer decided to participate in an excavation this summer, and he is giving us a peek in doing fieldwork under corona restrictions.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jim Been
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Ady Roxburgh
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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dominique van den Heuvel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’
In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a large part unnoticed. In a series of interviews we are catching up, giving the floor to our new colleagues. We kick off with Dr Tuna Kalayci, who joined…
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'I am interested in how we simulate ourselves into the future'
It is a known trait in humans to anchor innovations in the past, so as to make new developments easier to accept. It is an aspect of humanity that can also be spotted in classical and prehistoric times. Archaeologist Daniel Turner will investigate the anchoring of monumental building in Greek Prehistory…
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Simone van der Hof awarded EU funding for research on age verification and consent mechanisms
As part of the euCONSENT consortium, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) has been awarded European Commission funding to create a child rights’ centred cross-border system for online age verification and parental consent.
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Serge Rombouts
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mattijs Numans
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Arezoo Rahimi
Science
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Martine van Haperen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Remko Offringa
Science
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Guido Band
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Natashe Lemos Dekker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Roderik Gerritsen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Josien de Klerk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs