Prof. dr. Wil Roebroeks
Expertise:
- Palaeolithic
- Neanderthals
- Human evolution
- Hunting
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2387 |
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| E-Mail: | j.w.m.roebroeks@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Archeologie, Human Origins |
| Office Address: |
WSD Reuvensplaats 3-4 2311 BE Leiden Room number 205B |
Born in 1955, Roebroeks studied history at Nijmegen (MA cum laude 1979) and prehistory at Leiden University (MA 1982). From 1981 to 1984 he worked on a study of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic finds in the Netherlands. In 1983 he was appointed as lecturer at the Institute of Prehistory of Leiden University, where he developed a large-scale interdisciplinary excavation project of the ca. 250,000 year old traces of human occupation in the Belvedere quarry near Maastricht.
In 1989 he defended his PhD thesis (cum laude), for which was awarded the W.A. van Es-prize in 1990. His "Oermensen in Nederland. De Archeologie van de Oude Steentijd" won the Kijk/Wetenschapsweek-prijs for the best Dutch popular science book in 1991. In 1992 he initiated the European Science Foundation network on "The Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe", of which he became scientific secretary, as well as general editor of the series of volumes resulting from this network. In 1993 he was appointed senior lecturer at Leiden University, and in the same year NWO awarded him a PIONIER grant for the project "Changing Views of Ice Age Foragers" (1994-1998).
In 1996 Roebroeks obtained a personal chair for Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University. He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Evolution and of Current Anthropology, member of the editorial board of Paléo and of Quaternaire. Since 1999 he is Korrespondierendes Mitglied of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. In 2001 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), and in the same year the Prehistoric Society awarded him the "Europa Prize". In 2007 he was awarded a SPINOZA-prize by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, and in 2010 a Research Prize for foreign scientists from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn, Germany).
He has conducted fieldwork in the Netherlands (Maastricht-Belvedere), in England (Boxgrove), France (the Vezere valley), northeastern Russia, Germany (Neumark-Nord 2) and is currently working (with Mike Field) in East Anglia, at the site of Happisburgh 1.
Research Projects
2012
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MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, J.W.M. (2012)
Guest editorial. The environment and chronology of the earliest occupation of north-west Europe: current knowledge, problems and new research directions. Quaternary International, 271, pp. 1-5.
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MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, J.W.M. (2012)
T.R. - Quaternary International. Quaternary International, 271
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Cohen, K.M. & MacDonald, K. & Joordens, J.C.A. & Roebroeks, Wil & Gibbard, Ph.L. (2012)
The earliest occupation of north-west Europe: a coastal perspective. Quaternary International, 271, pp. 70-83.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Sier, M. & Kellberg Nielsen, Trine & De Loecker, D. & Parés, Jose Maria & Arps, Charley E.S. & Mucher, H. (2012)
Use of red ochre by early Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (6), pp. 1889-1894.
(Article)
2011
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Roebroeks, Wil & Hublin, J.-J. & MacDonald, K. (2011)
Continuities and discontinuities in Neandertal presence – a closer look at Northwestern Europe. In: Ashton, N., Lewis, S., Stringer, C.B. (Eds.), The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain, pp. 113-123. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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Sier, M. & Roebroeks, Wil & Bakels, C.C. & Dekkers, M.J. & Bruehl, E. & De Loecker, D. & Gaudzinski, S. & Hesse, N. & Jagich, A.P. & Kindler, L. & Kuijper, W.J. & Laurat, T. & Mucher, H. & Penkman, K.E.H. & Richter, D. & Van Hinsbergen, D.J.J. (2011)
Direct Terrestrial-Marine Correlation Demonstrates Surprisingly Late Onset of the Last Interglacial in Central Europe. Quaternary Research, 75 (1), pp. 213-218.
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Sier, M. & Roebroeks, Wil & Dekkers, M.J. & Bakels, C.C. & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2011)
Mismatch between MIS 5e and the Last Interglacial (Eemian) of Central Europe. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13
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Hijma, M.P. & Westerhoff, W. & Roebroeks, Wil & Kolfschoten, T., van & Cohen, K.M. (2011)
Neanderthalers in de Noordzee? Archeobrief, 15 (2), pp. 32-38.
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Gaudzinski, S. & Roebroeks, Wil (2011)
On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial Forested Environments in Northern Europe. In Conard, N.J. & Richter, J. (Eds.) Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology (pp. 61-71). Dordrecht/Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Villa, P. (2011)
On the Earliest Evidence for Habitual Use of Fire in Europe. PNAS, 108 (13), pp. 5209-5214.
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Hijma, M.P. & Cohen,, K & Roebroeks, Wil & Westerhoff, W.E. & Busschers, F. (2011)
Pleistocene Rhine-Thames landscapes: The Geological Background of Hominin Occupation of the Southern North Sea Region. Journal of Quaternary Science
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Roebroeks, J.W.M. & Kamermans, H. & Mol, J.A. & Turq, A. & Kolfschoten, M., van (2011)
Watching The River Flow: A small-scale survey of the floodplain deposits in the Vézère valley, between Le Moustier and Les Eyzies (Dordogne, France). In: Bakels, C.C. & Kamermans, H. (Eds.), Micellania Archaeologica Leidensia (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia), 41. , pp. 1-40. Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2010
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Amkreutz, L & Glimmerveen, J. & Hublin, J.-J. & Roebroeks, Wil & Anthonis, L. (2010)
Een Neanderthaler uit de Noordzee. Westerheem, 59, pp. 50-59.
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Svendsen, J.I. & Pavlov, P. & Heggen, H. & Mangerud, J. & Hufthammer, A.K. & Roebroeks, Wil (2010)
Geo-archaeological investigations of Palaeolithic sites along the Ural Mountains – On the northern presence of humans during the last Ice Age. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, pp. 3138-3156.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Sier, M. & Jagich, A.P. (2010)
The Last Interglacial (Eemian) site complex of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany). 16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
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Roebroeks, Wil (2010)
The Neandertal Experiment (Kroon Lecture). Amsterdam: Johan Enschede.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2010)
The Silence of the Stones: On the archaeological record for (Neandertal) language. In Smith, A.D.M., Schouwstra, M., De Boer, B., Smith, K. (Eds.) The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG 8) (pp. 254-262). New Jersey/London: World Scientific.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Roebroeks, Wil & Kamermans, H. & Mol, J.A. & Turq, A. & Kolfschoten, M., van (2010)
Watching The River Flow: A small-scale survey of the floodplain deposits of the Vézère valley, between Le Moustier and Les Eyzies (Dordogne, France). Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, 41, pp. 1-40.
(Article)
2009
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Roebroeks, Wil & Verpoorte, A. (2009)
A “Language-free” Explanation for Differences between the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Record. In Botha, R., Knight, C. (Ed.) The Cradle of Language (pp. 150-166). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, Wil & Verpoorte, A. (2009)
An Energetics Perspective on the Neandertal Record. In Hublin, J.-J., Richards, M.P. (Ed.) Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence (pp. 211-220). Springer.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Roebroeks, Wil (2009)
Continuities and discontinuities in Neandertal presence – a closer look at northwestern Europe. In Stringer, C. & Bello, S. (Eds.) Ancient Human Occupation of Britain and its European Context (p. 39). London: AHOB.
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Hublin, J.-J. & Roebroeks, Wil (2009)
Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? Comptes rendus Palevolution, 8, pp. 503-509.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Jagich, A.P. & Kindler, L. & Laurat, T. & De Loecker, D. & Bruhl, E. & Sier, M. & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2009)
Neumark-Nord 2: The Current State of Knowledge. Paleoanthropology society meeting AbstractsChicago
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Hublin, J.-J. & Weston, D.A. & Gunz, P. & Roebroeks, Wil & Richards, M.P. & Glimmerveen, J. & Anthonis, L. (2009)
Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal. Journal of Human Evolution
(Article)
2008
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Roebroeks, Wil & Corbey, R.H.A. (2008)
Axe Age. Lithic Technology, 34, pp. 53-59.
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Gaudzinski, S. & Roebroeks, Wil (2008)
Interglacial Neandertals at Neumark-Nord (Germany). Palaeoanthropology, pp. 8-9.
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Svendsen, J.I. & Pavlov, P. & Heggen, H. & Mangerud, J. & Hufthammer, A.K. & Roebroeks, Wil (2008)
The Ice Age environment and Paleolithic settlements along the western flank of the Ural Mountains. Way to North - Paleoenvironment and earliest inhabitants of Arctic and Subarctic (in Russian). Russian Academy of Sciences Special Publication (pp. 79-98). Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Roebroeks, Wil (2008)
Time for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. Journal of Human Evolution, 55, pp. 918-926.
(Article)
2007
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Corbey, R.H.A. & Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
From shell beads to syntax, Anthropology Today 23 (4), 24-26. Anthropology Today, 23, pp. 24-26.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
Building Blocks from an Old Brickyard. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, pp. 1194-1196.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
Cracks in the Cradle? On the quest for the origins of humankind. In Groen, A. in 't, et al. (Ed.) Ferment of Knowledge. Dilemmas in Science, Scholarship and SocietyLeiden/Amsterdam: Leiden University Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Corbey, R.H.A. & Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
From shell beads to syntax. Anthropology Today, 23, pp. 24-26.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. Amsterdam/Leiden: Leiden University Press.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. Leiden/Amsterdam: Leiden University Press.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2007)
Guts and Brains: An integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. In: Roebroeks, W. (Ed.), Guts and Brains: An integrative Approach to the Hominin Record, pp. 7-16. Leiden University Press.
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Anwar, N. & MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, Wil & Verpoorte, A. (2007)
The evolution of the human niche: integrating models with the fossil record. In: Roebroeks, W. (Ed.), Guts and brains: an integrative approach to the hominin record, pp. 235-269. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2006
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MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, Wil (2006)
Comment on S. Kuhn and M. Stiner, What's a mother to do? Current Anthropology, 47, pp. 966-967.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2006)
Introduction to session 3: Site and landscape approaches. In: Rensink, E. & Peeters, H. (Eds.), Preserving the Early Past. Investigation, selection and preservation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites and landscapes, pp. 139-140. Amersfoort: Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2006)
The human colonization of Europe: where are we? Journal of Quaterny Science, 21, pp. 425-435.
(Article)
2005
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Roebroeks, Wil (2005)
Life on the Costa del Cromer. Nature 438:921-922. Nature, 438, pp. 921-922.
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Roebroeks, Wil (2005)
Neanderthals and their predecessors. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. In: Louwe Kooijmans, L.P., Broeke, P. van de, Fokkens, H. (Ed.), The Prehistory of the Netherlands, pp. 93-113. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Gijn, A.L., van (2005)
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: Introduction. In Louwe Kooijmans, L.P., Broeke, P. van der, Fokkens, H. (Ed.) The Prehistory of the Netherlands (pp. 77-92). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Gijn, A.L., van (2005)
Paleolithic and Mesolithic: introduction, 500,000 years ago to 5300 BC. In: Louwe Kooijmans, L.P., Broeke, P.W., van den, Fokkens, H., Gijn, A.L., van (Eds.), The Prehistory of the Netherlands, pp. 77-92. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Gijn, A.L., van & Roebroeks, Wil (2005)
Paleolithicum en mesolithicum: inleiding, 500.000 jaar geleden tot 5300 v. Chr. In: Louwe Kooijmans,, L.P., Broeke, P.W., van den, Fokkens, H., gijn, A.L., van (Eds.), De prehistorie van Nederland, pp. 77-92. Amsterdam: Prometeus.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2004
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Mol, J.A. & Roebroeks, Wil & Kamermans, H. & Kolfschoten, M., van & Turq, A. (2004)
Weichselian and Holocene Fluvial Evolution of the Vézère River Valley (Dordogne, France). Quaternaire, 15, pp. 187-193.
(Article)
2003
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Kamermans, H. & Roebroeks, Wil & Mol, J.A. & Kolfschoten, M., van & Turq, A. (2003)
Like a Rolling Stone? On the use of quantitative methods during a small-cale excavation in the Vézère river valley (France). In Börner, W. & Dolhofer, R. (Eds.) Workshop 7. Archäologie und ComputerWien: Phoibos Verlag.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2000
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Roebroeks, Wil & Turq, A. & Kamermans, H. & Mol, J.A. & Kolfschoten, M., van (2000)
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Laugerie Haute est. Bordeaux: DRAC.
(External research report)
1997
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Kolen, J. & Roebroeks, Wil & Poecke, M., van & Gijn, A.L., van (1997)
'Site J': an early Weichselian (Middle Palaeolithic) flint scatter at Maastricht-Belvédère, the Netherlands. Paleo, 9
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Roebroeks, Wil & Corbey, R.H.A. (1997)
Ancient minds. Current Anthropology, 38, pp. 921.
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Roebroeks, Wil & Kolen, J. & Poecke, M., van & Gijn, A.L., van (1997)
Site J: an early Weichselian (Middle Palaeolithic) flint scatter at Maastricht-Belvédère, the Netherlands. Revue D'Archéologie Préhistorique, 9, pp. 143-172.
(Article)
1986
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Roebroeks, Wil & Rensink, E. & Gijn, A.L., van (1986)
Maastricht - Belvédère Site G. In: Willems, W.J.H. (Ed.), Archeologische kroniek van Limburg over 1985, pp. 203-207.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
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