Prof. dr. Wil Roebroeks
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2387 |
| E-Mail: | j.w.m.roebroeks@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
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WSD Reuvensplaats 3~4 2311 BE Leiden Room number 205 |
- 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 around 250,000 years old traces of human occupation in the Belvedere quarry near Maastricht. In 1989 he defended his PhD thesis (cum laude), which was awarded the W.A. van Es-prize in 1990, while his Oermensen in Nederland. De Archeologie van de Oude Steentijd yielded 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 KNAW, and in the same year the Prehistoric Society awarded him the ‘Europa Prize’ for 2002. He has been conducting fieldwork in the Netherlands (Maastricht-Belvedere), in England (Boxgrove), France (the Vezere valley) and is currently working in northeastern Russia.
Research Projects
2009
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Roebroeks, W. & 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, W. & 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.
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Roebroeks, W. (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, W. (2009)
Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? Comptes rendus Palevolution, 8, pp. 503-509.
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Hublin, J.-J. & Weston, D.A. & Gunz, P. & Roebroeks, W. & Richards, M.P. & Glimmerveen, J. & Anthonis, L. (2009)
Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal. Journal of Human Evolution
(Article / Letter to editor)
2008
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Roebroeks, W. & Corbey, R. (2008)
Axe Age. Lithic Technology, 34, pp. 53-59.
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Gaudzinski, S. & Roebroeks, W. (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, W. (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.
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Roebroeks, W. (2008)
Time for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. Journal of Human Evolution, 55, pp. 918-926.
(Article / Letter to editor)
2007
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Corbey, R.H.A. & Roebroeks, W. (2007)
From shell beads to syntax, Anthropology Today 23 (4), 24-26. Anthropology Today, 23, pp. 24-26.
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Roebroeks, W. (2007)
Building Blocks from an Old Brickyard. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, pp. 1194-1196.
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Roebroeks, W. (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.
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Corbey, R.H.A. & Roebroeks, W. (2007)
From shell beads to syntax. Anthropology Today, 23, pp. 24-26.
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Roebroeks, W. (2007)
Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. Leiden/Amsterdam: Leiden University Press.
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Roebroeks, W. (2007)
Guts and Brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. Amsterdam/Leiden: Leiden University Press.
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Roebroeks, W. (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, W. & Verpoorte, A. (2007)
The evolution of the human niche. In: Roebroeks, W (Ed.), Guts and Brains and Guts: An integrative approach to the hominin record, pp. 235-269. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press.
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Anwar, N. & MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, W. & 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.
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2006
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MacDonald, K. & Roebroeks, W. (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, W. (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, W. (2006)
The human colonization of Europe: where are we? Journal of Quaterny Science, 21, pp. 425-435.
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Roebroeks, W. & MacDonald, K. (2006)
What's a mother to do? Comment on S. Kuhn and M. Stiner. Current Anthropology, 47, pp. 966-967.
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2005
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Roebroeks, W. (2005)
Life on the Costa del Cromer. Nature 438:921-922. Nature, 438, pp. 921-922.
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Roebroeks, W. (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, W. & 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, W. & 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, W. (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.
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2004
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Mol, J.A. & Roebroeks, W. & Kamermans, H. & Kolfschoten, M., van & Turq, A. (2004)
Weichselian and Holocene Fluvial Evolution of the Vézère River Valley (Dordogne, France). onbekend, 15, pp. 187-193.
(Article / Letter to editor)
2003
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Kamermans, H. & Roebroeks, W. & 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.
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2000
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Roebroeks, W. & 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, W. & 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, W. & Corbey, R. (1997)
Ancient minds. Current Anthropology, 38, pp. 921.
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Roebroeks, W. & 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 / Letter to editor)
1986
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Roebroeks, W. & 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.
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