Wil Roebroeks

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Wil Roebroeks (2007)

Wil Roebroeks (born May 5, 1955 ) is a Dutch prehistoric scientist who deals with the Paleolithic (Palaeolithic) in Europe.

Roebroeks studied history at the University of Nijmegen with the degree in 1979 and prehistory at the University of Leiden with the degree in 1982. At this time he was working on finds from the lower and middle Paleolithic of the Netherlands and started a large international excavation project on Paleolithic finds (age around 250,000 years ) in the Belvedere quarry near Maastricht . For his dissertation in 1989 in Leiden he received the W. A. ​​van Es Prize. In 1992 he initiated the European network of palaeolithic colonization in Europe and was its secretary. In 1993 he became a lecturer in Leiden and received a pioneer grant from the NWO. In 1996 he was appointed to the newly created chair for paleolithic archeology at the University of Leiden.

He undertook field studies in Maastricht (Belvedere quarry), England ( Boxgrove , Happisburgh 1), France ( Vézère valley), Germany (Neumark-Nord 2 in the Geiseltal ) and northeast Russia.

Many of the finds of artifacts for early hominids in Europe are controversial, and Roebroeks was involved with others in the refutation of corresponding reports on the Untermaßfeld site (around 1 million years old) in Thuringia.

In 2007 he received the Spinoza Prize and in 2010 the Humboldt Research Prize . In 2001 he received the Europe Prize of the Prehistoric Society. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (2001), the Academia Europaea (2017) and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (1999).

He was co-editor of the Journal of Human Evolution and Current Anthropology .

Fonts

  • From find scatters to early hominid behavior: A study of middle palaeolithic riverside settlements at Maastricht-Belvedere , Leiden University 1988
  • Editor with Thijs van Kolfschoten: The earliest occupation of Europe, Leiden University, Analectica Praehistorica Leidensia 27, 1993 (Workshop Tautavel, France 1993)
  • Published by: The earliest occupation of Europe , Leiden University 1996
  • Editor with Clive Gamble: The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe , Leiden University 1998
  • Editor with Margherita Mussi , Jiri Svoboda, Kelly Fennema: Hunters of the Golden Age: The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000-20,000 BP, Leiden University 2000
  • Oermensen in Nederland. De Archeologie van de Oude Steentijd , Meulenhoff 1990 (popular science, received the Kijk / Wetenschapsweek Prize in 1991)
  • The image of prehistoric man in the course of time: On the history of today's views and debates in research on prehistory, yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz , 40th year 1993 (sixth Rudolf Virchow lecture , 1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wil Roebroeks, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser , Michael Baales, Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke: Uneven Data Quality and the Earliest Occupation of Europe: The Case of Untermassfeld (Germany) , BioRxiv 2017, bioRxiv : 2017/10/31/211268 ( Preprint - Full text).
  2. ^ Membership directory: Wil Roebroeks. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Roebroeks, Wil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roebroeks, Johannus Wilhelmus Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1955