12 search results for “bronze age” in the Staff website
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Archaeologist Valerio Gentile investigates Bronze Age spear combat
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team from Leiden and Göttingen University present a new approach to answering these questions: they simulated the actual fight…
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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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Jingjing CaoFaculteit Archeologie
j.cao@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1603
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Chen WangFaculteit Archeologie
c.wang@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Leah PowellFaculteit Archeologie
l.r.powell@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Riia TimonenFaculteit Archeologie
r.e.timonen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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Maikel KuijpersFaculteit Archeologie
m.h.g.kuijpers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2386
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Harry FokkensFaculteit Archeologie
h.fokkens@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Athina BoletiFaculteit Archeologie
a.boleti@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lasse van den DikkenbergFaculteit Archeologie
l.van.den.dikkenberg@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 NNB
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International students explore the archaeology of Oss: ‘I was responsible for finding 50% of the pottery sherds’
The Municipality of Oss is a household name in the world of Dutch archaeology. For fifty years, Leiden archaeologists, in collaboration with residents of Oss, have been uncovering the history of the municipality. 2024 is the archaeological year of Oss! In a series of interviews we look back on fifty…