833 search results for “early modern human” in the Student website
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Andrew Sorensen -
Wei Chu -
Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
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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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
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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Jacobine Melis -
Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Project mapping Early-Medieval connections launches in Leiden
Having received a European Research Centre grant in 2025 the Connected Communities in Early Medieval Europe (COCO) project kicked off with a three-day long programme last month. From the 28th to the 30th of April the National Museum of Antiquities and the Faculty of Archaeology hosted the meetings bringing…
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Jos Bazelmans -
Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Karel Berkhoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Hendri Schut
Faculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li -
Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Medieval insights for modern urban planning
Historical geographer Marcel IJsselstijn developed a new approach that improves our understanding of how medieval cities were planned. He hopes it will help archaeologists, urban planners and designers address contemporary challenges.
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’
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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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Terence RenaudFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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magnifying glass reveals exceptionally heavy dormant black hole in the early universe
Astronomers have measured the mass of a dormant, supermassive black hole in the early universe for the first time. Thanks to a combination of the James Webb Space Telescope and a natural cosmic magnifying glass, researchers were able to weigh the black hole directly based on its gravity.
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Mette Langbroek -
Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
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.
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
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 -
Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Yann RyanFaculty of Humanities
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Holly Riach: ‘Early modern books are less chaotic than previously thought’
In the early modern period, it was perfectly normal to find recipes, legal documents or medical writings in a book of poems. Holly Riach studied the underlying principles of these ‘miscellanies’ during her PhD.
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BaarFaculty of Humanities
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Ivo van Wijk -
Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
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