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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Publications

Book

Vander Linden M. 2006. Le phénomène campaniforme dans l'Europe du 3ème millénaire avant notre ère. Synthèse et nouvelles perspectives. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1470).

Edited volume

Vander Linden M and Salanova L. (eds.), 2004. Le troisième millénaire dans le nord de la France et en Belgique. Actes de la journée d'études SRBAP-SPF, 8 mars 2003, Lille,Anthropologica et Praehistorica 115.

Selected papers

Bocquet-Appel J-P, Naji S, Vander Linden M and Kozlowski JK. 2009. Detection of diffusion and contact zones of early farming in Europe from the space-time distribution of 14C dates. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 807–820.

Vander Linden M. 2007. For equalities are plural. Re-assessing the social in Europe during the 3rd millennium BC. World Archaeology, 39(2): 177–193.

Vander Linden M. 2007. What linked the bell beakers in the third millennium Europe?Antiquity, 81: 343–352.

Vander Linden M. 2006. For whom the bell tolls. Social hierarchy vs social integration in the Bell Beaker culture of southern France. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 16: 317–332.

Vander Linden M. 2004. Elle tomba dans la bonne terre et elle donna du fruit qui monta (Marc 4, 8): la culture à Céramique Cordée comme substrat du Phénomène Campaniforme. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Francaise, 101(2): 207–214.

Vander Linden M. 2004. The roots of the Indo-European diaspora: new perspectives on the north Pontic hypothesis. In: K Jones-Bley, ME Huld, A DellaVolpe and M Robbins Dexter (eds.), Proceedings of the fifteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European conference, Los Angeles, November 2003, pp. 138–154. Institute for the Study of Man: Washington

van Berg PL, Vander Linden M, Lemaitre S, Cauwe N and Picalause V. 2004. Desert-kites of the Hemma plateau (Hassake, Syria). Paléorient, 30(1): 89–100.