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: Evaluation Research and Research Projects 2005 - 2008; In 2008 a midterm-evaluation of the Research and Research Projects of the Faculty of Archaeology was done.; Read more

: Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant for Alexander Geurds; 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; Read more

: Pilot excavation in Iraqi Kurdistan; 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.; Read more

: Guidelines for grant seekers; These guidelines are obligatory for all NWO or ERC grant proposals. No deviation from this schedule will be accepted. They are recommended for other grant applications (EU, LUF and others). Applications not presented to the Board of the Faculty with an advice from the Research Committee will not be supported by the Faculty.; Read more

: Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world; The Netherlands Organisation of Scientic Research (NWO) has granted the VIDI application of Dr. Miguel John Versluys for research on Egyptian and other foreign influences on Roman cultural innovation.; Read more

: 23 March 2010: Next Archaeological Forum 16:00 sharp Lipsius 227; Title to be announced; Read more

: 30 March 2010: Next Ancient Worlds Seminar; Bleda Düring - The Second Neolithic Revolution in Asia Minor: Evaluating Possible Causes.; Read more

: 'From Prehistory to Ethnography in the Circum-Caribbean and Amazonia'; The ‘Leiden in the Caribbean’ conference will take place from March 30th till April 1st 2010. The conference, entitled ‘From Prehistory to Ethnography in the Circum-Caribbean and Amazonia’, is proudly presented by Prof. dr. Corinne Hofman and the Caribbean Research Group (Faculty of Archaeology).; Read more

: Deadlines for the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme 2010; Deadline full proposals: Veni - January 7th; Vidi - February 11th; Vici - March 30.; Read more

: 9 April 2010: Global Interactions Seminar; Prof. dr. Kitty Zijlmans (Institute for Cultural Disciplines): Pushing back Frontiers: from Art History to World Art Studies.; Read more

: 22 April 2010: Next PhD Defence; Alice Samson - Renewing the house: Trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504.; Read more

: Wealthy nobleman's grave from prehistoric times; Dr. David Fontijn and his staff have found hundreds of minute bronze artefacts in the grave of a wealthy prehistoric nobleman. The grave is to the south of Oss, beneath one of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands. The young ruler was given a ceremonial burial here 2600 years ago in a unique and extensive ritual burial ground from the late prehistoric period. The finds will be presented on Thursday 5 November in the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss.; Read more

: El Lienzo de Otla. Memoria de un Paisaje Sagrado.; Victor Hugo Ruiz Ortiz & Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen.; Read more

: The Western European Loess Belt; Agrian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000; C.C. Bakels; Read more

: Leiden Seminar on Global Interactions - Friday March 19th; Friday March 19th Chris Goto-Jones and Peter Pels will deliver a presentation on their research project on futurities (forms of the future): "Tomorrows from Elsewhere: On Science Fiction, Developmentalism, and the Politics of Comparative Futurities". The seminar is open to MaRes students and higher. Registration is not required.; Read more

: A Neandertal fossil from the north sea; A fragment of a human skull discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15 km off the coast off the Netherlands, has been identified as belonging to the extinct Neandertal group.; Read more

: Mr Eric Milton Branford and Mr Henry Nathaniel; visit the Faculty of Archaeology; Read more

: World Archaeology and Human Origins; Early humans, Neandertals, the origin of agriculture, the first societies, the archaeology of the Greeks, Romans and Mixtecs, the discovery of the New Worlds, almost every theme in archaeology is offered in Leiden.; Read more