Faculty of Archaeology - Universiteit Leiden

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🇳🇱Tussen de Limburgse landschappen liggen sporen van een ver verleden verborgen. In Baarlo wordt al jarenlang onderzoek gedaan naar prehistorische grafheuvels en het landschap daaromheen. Door dit onderzoek komen we steeds meer te weten over de grafheuvels en de mensen die deze duizenden jaren geleden hebben aangelegd.
   
Dit onderzoek draagt niet alleen bij aan onze kennis van het verleden. Er wordt ook gekeken hoe de grafheuvels op een duurzame manier behouden en beheerd kunnen worden. Het doel hiervan is om dit vergeten landschap te veranderen in een betekenisvolle plek gevuld met verhalen over het verleden van Baarlo.
Tijdens de open dag vertellen onze studenten over het werk wat op deze opgraving doen en kun je leren hoe grafheuvels er in het moderne landschap uitzien. Kom op 8 juli gezellig kijken!

🇬🇧Hidden within the landscapes of Limburg are traces of a distant past. In Baarlo, research has been conducted for many years on prehistoric burial mounds and the surrounding landscape. This research continues to reveal more about these burial mounds and the people who constructed them thousands of years ago.
The project contributes not only to our understanding of the past, but also explores how these burial mounds can be preserved and managed in a sustainable way. The aim is to transform this forgotten landscape into a meaningful place where the stories of Baarlo's past can be rediscovered and shared.
During the open day our students can tell you all about the work they do at this excavation and you can learn what burial mounds look like in a modern landscape. Come and take a look on July 8th!

Underwater archaeology instead of on land? No problem for our students! From June 1st to June 15th, a group of our students participated in an underwater field school. This fieldschool was a collaboration between Leiden university and Universidad de Cádiz (Universiteit van Cádiz), with support from the Rijksdienst for Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed . For two weeks the students learned everything about Maritime Archaeology: reading an underwater Landscape, recognizing archaeological features, drawing underwater and much more. The site for the fieldwork were the bays of Cala Higuera and Isleta del Moro, with largely Roman and Medieval finds. 

Of course a new blogpost was published on our blog and can be found in the bio links! 



Dr. Enrique Aragon geeft laatste instructies aan Prof. Dr. Martijn Manders en de studenten voordat zij te water gaan.

Dr. Enrique Aragon giving final instructions to Prof. Dr. Martijn Manders and the students before they go underwater.

Studenten leggen de baseline voor hun lijnsurvey in Cala Higuera.

Students are placing the baseline for their linesurvey in Cala Higuera.

Studenten zwemmen op lijn om de bodem af te speuren naar resten uit het verleden.

Students swimming in line to search for remains from the past.

Femke Reidsma, postdoc and guest researcher of our faculty has been awarded a prestigous grant for her research on the role of fire in hominin evolution. For this research she will join the Harvard University paleoecology laboratory.

As always, you can read more about her research on our website!

May is a month of holidays! Here is an overview of all the days the faculty will be closed 🏢

We proudly present our latest masters and bachelors graduates! Congratulations to all of you 🎉🎓

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Excavating in the sun is always a treat🌞
Here you see some of our first year bachelors students who are excavating in Geffen (Oss) right now. On dutch excavations, you frequently get rained on. So when the sun comes out to play, it is extra enjoyable!

Leiden University is always at the forefront of technology and innovation. Our digital archaeologists have set out to develop an archaeological virtual assistant: iDig. Trained on the geological map of the Netherlands, it can find archaeological material underneath buildings and layers upon layers of soil!
Curious to find out more? Go to the link in our bio or find the article under the new section of our website