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1,072 search results for “early modern human” in the Staff website

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  Andrew Sorensen Postdoc/ Guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Wei Chu Researcher and assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History Event
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  Nina Witteman Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marika Keblusek Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe News - 23 August 2022

  In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…

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  Gerrit van Uitert Education and Research Staff Member

  Faculty of Humanities

• Holly Riach: ‘Early modern books are less chaotic than previously thought’ News - 31 March 2026

  In the early modern period, it was perfectly normal to find recipes, legal documents or medical writings in a book of poems. PhD candidate Holly Riach studied the underlying principles of these ‘miscellanies’.

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  Nicolette Mout Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Raymond Fagel University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries News - 29 November 2022

  Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…

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  Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nadine Akkerman Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jacobine Melis PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• LUCAS Modern & Contemporary Cluster Event
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  Lionel Laborie Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Modernization of the library finished

  The renewed library is built in the middle of wing B on the ground floor. The entrance opens onto the central hall.

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  Jos Bazelmans Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Jacqueline Hylkema Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Saskia Jaszoltowski Vistiting Professor Central European Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Karel Berkhoff Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Weishuo Li PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Hendri Schut PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jesse Sarneel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe Guest postdoc researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’ News - 20 October 2025

  Jonathan Powell came to Leiden from England to conduct research into the role of women in early modern court cases. In addition to all kinds of exciting documents, he also discovered the biscuits from the Water & Bloem bakery and the wild flowers at the Groenesteeg cemetery.

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  Felicia Rosu Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Hidden star formation in the early Universe Event - 9 April 2026

  PhD defence

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  Steven Lauritano University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Judith Pollmann Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years Event - 10 June 2026

  Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People

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  Terence Renaud Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mette Langbroek PhD candidate/ Guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Dusan Maczek PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Pablo Merayo Montes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mat Immerzeel Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities' News - 8 September 2022

  Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.

• Quantum Parameter Estimation for Early Fault-tolerant Quantum Simulation Event - 22 May 2026

  PhD defence

• Humanities

  During an evacuation, employees and students of Humanities gather at the following assembly points:

• Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society' News - 6 November 2025

  In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…

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  Frans Theuws Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Anchoring & Affordances: The Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Theory of the Idols Event - 16 April 2026

  PhD defence

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  Leonor Alvarez Francés PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jacques van der Vliet Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mirjam de Baar Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities