NewsWil Roebroeks, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology in Leiden, is to be awarded the ‘Academy Professors Prize’ of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Roebroeks has drastically changed academic thinking about the behaviour of early hominins and our knowledge of the earliest colonisation of Europe and Asia.
Prof. Dr. Corinne Hofman, director of the Caribbean Research Group at the Faculty of Archaeology, has been awarded a grant by the European Science Foundation for the Humanities in the European Research Area ( HERA )for the research "Caribbean Connections: Cultural Encounters in a New World Setting".
A grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung foundation has been awarded to Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist, a co-applicant on a project entitled "The Osteoarchaeology of Pastoralism in Cis-Baikal, Russia (Southern Siberia)".