Since 2005 Dutch artists Ida van der Lee's Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls' All around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse public of various ages and religious as well as non-religious backgrounds together at the end of October or the beginning of November at hospitably decorated cemeteries and crematoria. Here, after dusk, these visitors were given various chances to commemorate their dearly departed usi...

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the Documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenou...

Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological research carried out on a group of just two barrows that crown a small hilltop near the Echoput ("echo-well") in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

In 2007, archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden University carried out an excavation of ...

Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics from a variety of disciplines - archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography - revolving around the themes of mobility and exchange, culture contact, and settlement and community. The application of innovative approaches and the multi-dimen...

Ze waren de eerste gewervelde dieren in de evolutie die konden vliegen... 'pterosauriërs' ofwel 'vliegende reptielen'. Deze verre verwanten van de moderne reptielen en de alom bekende dinosauriërs leefden van ruim 200 miljoen jaar tot ongeveer 65 miljoen jaar geleden. Toen ze uitstierven waren er geen afstammelingen die dit overleefden, waardoor we deze vliegende prehistorische dieren niet echt goed kunnen vergelijken met dieren van nu. Wat weten we dus eigenlijk van deze succesvolle diergr...

This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning "the big house of Oursi" in the locally spoken Songhay language, was excavated in 2000 and 2001 by a scientific team from the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Ouagadougou. It is situated in the middle of a group of settlement mounds, nearby the modern village of Oursi. In the year 2000 deep erosion gullies were th...

This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (ca. 400 BC - AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the region related to one another and others at various geographic scales, with a view to better understanding social interaction and organization within the Windward Islands as well the integration of this region within the macro-region.An island-by-island study of some 640 archaeolo...

Tot ca. 4000 jaar geleden had de mens vrijwel uitsluitend de beschikking over stenen werktuigen om zijn strijd om het bestaan succesvol te kunnen voeren. Vuursteen was zonder twijfel de meest geschikte, en daarmee meest gebruikte grondstof om gereedschappen van te vervaardigen. Het leverde vlijmscherpe werkkanten op. Door het veelvuldig gebruik van vuurstenen werktuigen en het feit dat ze gedurende duizenden jaren onveranderd in de bodem bewaard konden blijven, vormen ze een dankbaar onderwer...

In 1660 verscheen één van de eerste overzichtswerken over de (voor)geschiedenis van Noord-Nederland, Johan Picardts 'Korte Beschryvinge Van eenige Vergetene en Verborgene Antiquiteten'. De auteur behandelt in zijn driedelige studie tal van onderwerpen, zoals de komst van de eerste mensen, het ontstaan van de venen, de aanwezigheid van Romeinse militairen, de ondergang van de mythische stad Hunso, het verloop van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en de ontwikkeling van de vestingstad Coevorden.

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The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time. It took Carter and his team 10 years to clear the contents of the tomb and among the objects found was a large collection of shoes and sandals. The footwear is analysed here in detail for the first time since the discovery using Carter's records and Harry Burton's excellent photographs along with the author's analyses of the objects, all of which are housed in th...