EDITORIAL STATEMENT
‘PUBLISH OR PERISH’?
PRESENTING THE WORK OF JUNIOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO A
BROADER AUDIENCE
Dean Peeters¹, Robin Nieuwenkamp²
Mette B. Langbroek³, Roosmarie J.C. Vlaskamp4
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E-mail address: [email protected]
¹uni-koln.academia.edu/DeanPeeters
²leidenuniv.academia.edu/RobinNieuwenkamp
³leidenuniv.academia.edu/MetteLangbroek
4leidenuniv.academia.edu/RoosmarieVlaskamp
B
ackground
In September 2014 Leiden University’s Faculty
of Archaeology celebrated the opening of the
renovated van Steenis building with the two-day symposium: ‘Archaeology in Transition’. Here, faculty staff
members, students, and external invitees congregated to
discuss the nature and future of Archaeology. At a given
moment, one of the invited scholars raised the point that,
unfortunately, only very few students aim to publish resear