834 search results for “digital archaeology” in the Student website
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War in Ukraine: a statement by the Faculty Board of Archaeology
Organisation
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Registration for Archaeology BA2 Seminar Series 3 opens at 13.00 hours
Education
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Active Acquaintance for new Archaeology students: ‘Wellbeing, study succes, and having fun is all connected’
Every year the newly arriving Archaeology students are invited to join an introduction day during which they get to know the Faculty and each other. This year, however, for the first time, the students were invited to join in on introductory activities of a less static and more fun nature, organised…
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New method for extracting human DNA from archaeological objects yields success
An international team of researchers led by Leiden archaeology professor Marie Soressi and Leipzig senior geneticist Matthias Meyer has recovered the DNA of a woman belonging to an Ancient North Eurasian population from a 20,000-year-old pendant. This is the first time DNA analysis has been used to…
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Organising a sustainable academic event at Archaeology: ‘You will be surprised how many people actually enjoy it’
At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…
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Marc van der Ham
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure
In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research on Chinese infrastructure. ‘It is great that it is also possible to develop large projects in the social sciences…
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Florian Helmecke
Faculteit Archeologie
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Harry Fokkens
Faculteit Archeologie
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Diversifying archaeological practice with a small grant: ‘This helps us to work in collaboration with the Faculty community’
The Faculty of Archaeology is running a funding scheme to assist small-scale projects that contribute to diversifying archaeological practice in all domains, including classrooms, laboratories, museums, and the field. We discuss the grant with two representatives from the Diversity Committee: Tuna Kalaycı…
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tijm Lanjouw
Faculteit Archeologie
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sam Botan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Joanne Mol
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marie Kolbenstetter
Faculteit Archeologie
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie
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Arturo García De León
Faculteit Archeologie
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Valentina Azzarà
Faculteit Archeologie
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Register for the Archaeology workshop Dealing with teamwork and group assignments
Education, Social
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Important notes on writing your archaeological thesis (BA, MA, and ResMA)
Education
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Archaeology alumna Anouk Everts will tell you about studying abroad during Being the First meeting
Education
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Register for the Archaeology workshop Dealing with stress, failure and overthinking
Education, Social
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Harold Kelly
Faculteit Archeologie
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Caribbean archaeology in times of corona: ‘Instead of fieldwork, our students worked on an online exhibition’
Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both the application process as well as the start of the project were challenged by the limitations set by Covid-19. ‘As a preparation we travelled through the…
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Archaeology students follow Bystander Intervention & Consent training: ‘We're better for having had it.’
In the past months all Leiden Archaeology students were asked to partake in the Bystander Intervention & Consent training. These workshops teach people how to recognise and safely intervene in situations they feel the need to act upon. We speak with two students who participated about their experien…
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Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy
With a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund D//F, John Boy and members of the d12n research cluster will explore new ways critical technologists try to align their work with digital technology with the political goal of defending the public interest.
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Linda Louis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alex Ingrams
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Rüya Akdag
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Five questions on event 'Leadership in the digital transition'
Minister Alexandra van Huffelen will attend the 'Leadership in the digital transition' event at Campus Wijnhaven organised by Alex Ingrams on 16 February. Five questions to Ingrams about the event.
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Nina van der Knaap
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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ESA grant to improve the Earth's 'digital twin'
Global warming, deforestation, nature conservation. All major environmental challenges that call for major measures. To see what the effects of these measures are, observation data from the Earth is used. Researchers at LIACS receive €90,000 from the European Space Agency (ESA). With this they are investigating…
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Meet the new Board Secretaries at Archaeology: ‘This is the game I want to play a role in’
With the departure of Janneke Mulders as Board Secretary of the Faculty of Archaeology, Hilde Adriaenssens has been enlisted as an interim until the new Secretary, Mischa Hautvast, starts in January. We sat down with both to get a clear picture of their activities and backgrounds.
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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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Bart Barendregt on Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity
Bart Barendregt explains his new Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity in an interview on the Unesco website.
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Law and Digital Technologies graduate wins prestigious Google Prize
Javier Aleuanlli, an Advanced Masters graduate from the Law and Digital Technologies programme at Leiden University, has been awarded Google's Diverse Copyright Thesis Award 2021 for his LL.M. thesis "Augmented Reality and Copyright: perspective under the EU framework". In this work, Javier mapped and…
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie