News and AgendaThis week a Joint Palestinian-Dutch expedition in cooperation with UNESCO started (2010-2012). Funded by the Government of The Netherlands. The major activities of the project include scientific research and the formulation and implementation of a Management Plan. For this the three involved institutions MOTA-DACH, the University of Leiden (Faculty of Archaeology), and UNESCO, work closely together with local stakeholders to implement the project.
The 2010 ICAZ International Conference will be held in Paris, France from August 23-28, 2010. Faculty members Margot Kuitems, Anna Russell and Inge van der Jagt will perform presentations on dairying practices and mammoth extinction.
The 16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists will be held in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands from 1st-5th September 2010.
Dean Prof. Willem J.H. Willems will be travelling to Mongolia this summer, as participant of the Mongolian International Heritage Team (MIHT). Prof. Willems is co-president and expert member of ICAHM, the ICOMOS International Committee of Archaeological Heritage Management and will serve as evaluator for the Oyu Tolgoi cultural heritage plan (CHP).
The research Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe published 8th July 2010 in Nature is part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project, in which the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University is involved. One of the authors of the article is Dr Mike Field , staff member of the Faculty of Archaeology.
Graduate students who still want to graduate as "drs./doctorandus", should as soon as possible notify the study coordinator of the Graduate School Archaeology.
L. Bouke van der Meer (editor): Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion. Proceedings of the International Colloquium. Leiden, May 29 and 30, 2008. ISBN 978-90-429-2366-9.
Alice Samson and her colleague Bridget Waller (Portsmouth University) provided new insights into pre-colonial social interaction in the Greater Antilles in a multidisciplinary collaboration (Archaeology & Evolutionary Biology). Their research was published in Current Anthropology.
As a cooperation between the St. Maarten Archaeological Center (SIMARC) and Leiden University in the Netherlands, graduate student Khristy Werleman of Aruba, who is finishing her Master's Degree in Archaeology at Leiden University, is helping to implement a professional catalogue-registration system for artifacts.
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This Autumn the Leiden Seminar on Global Interactions will continue with a series of lectures from researchers in the field of Global Interactions. Every first Friday of the month we welcome you in the Snouck Hurgronje huis on Rapenburg. (Friday October 1st, November 5th, December 3rd) Friday October 15th there will be a bookpresentation organized by the profile area in Gravensteen, Pieterskerkhof 6 from 14-17h.
Lithic Biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Prof. dr. Annelou van Gijn (2010).
The Netherlands organisation for Scientific Research NWO has granted a subsidy to prof. dr Wilfred H. van Soldt (Humanities, LIAS) and dr Diederik J.W. Meijer (Archaeology, Near East) to conduct a pilot excavation in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Alexander Geurds was awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant this week. He received this grant to support his ongoing research into the spread and development of monumental stone sculpture in Central and Caribbean Nicaragua
As announced before, the new student information system uSis is operational. As of May 3, 2010, the system will be available to students.
Due to the conversion to USIS, the secretariat is temporarily unable to send e-mail messages to students.
Information on both internal and external upcoming activities.