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Wil Roebroeks

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#1607

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Archeology

#207

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#321

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Wil Roebroeks's Degrees

PhD Archaeology Leiden University
Masters Archaeology Leiden University

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According to Wikipedia, Wil Roebroeks is the professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is widely considered to be the pre-eminent Dutch archaeologist. In 2001 he became a member of the influential Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 Roebroeks won the Spinozapremie, the most prestigious scientific award in the Netherlands.

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Wil Roebroeks's Published Works

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On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe (2011) (531)
An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa (2005) (344)
Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving (2014) (264)
Adults only. Reindeer hunting at the middle palaeolithic site salzgitter lebenstedt, northern Germany. (2000) (261)
Use of red ochre by early Neandertals (2012) (218)
Hominid behaviour and the earliest occupation of Europe: an exploration. (2001) (200)
Neandertal Demise: An Archaeological Analysis of the Modern Human Superiority Complex (2014) (182)
The fragmented character of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool technology. (2013) (181)
Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies] (1992) (170)
The earliest occupation of Europe: a short chronology (1994) (155)
From Find Scatters to Early Hominid Behaviour. A Study of Middle Palaeolithic Riverside Settlements at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands) (1988) (153)
Ebb and flow or regional extinctions? On the character of Neandertal occupation of northern environments (2009) (146)
The Earliest Occupation of Europe (1995) (144)
The earliest colonization of Europe: the short chronology revisited (1996) (121)
Pleistocene Rhine–Thames landscapes: geological background for hominin occupation of the southern North Sea region (2012) (119)
The human colonisation of Europe: where are we? (2006) (117)
Population size does not explain past changes in cultural complexity (2016) (115)
Hunters of the Golden Age: The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000 - 20,000 BP (2000) (105)
The earliest occupation of north-west Europe: a coastal perspective (2012) (80)
The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe (1998) (80)
Neandertals revised (2016) (77)
Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals (2016) (76)
Burning the Land (2015) (73)
Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland ridges Neandertal. (2009) (72)
Hominids without Homes: On the nature of Middle Palaeolithic Settlement in Europe (2000) (68)
Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals (2018) (65)
Extraterrestrial evidence on the age of the hominids from Java. (2000) (64)
The empirical case against the ‘demographic turn’ in Palaeolithic archaeology (2016) (61)
Direct terrestrial–marine correlation demonstrates surprisingly late onset of the last interglacial in central Europe (2011) (59)
Time for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. (2008) (55)
Fire production in the deep past? The expedient strike-a-light model (2014) (52)
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes (2016) (49)
Continuities and Discontinuities in Neandertal Presence: A Closer Look at Northwestern Europe (2011) (48)
Stable isotope analysis of well-preserved 120,000-year-old herbivore bone collagen from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark-Nord 2, Germany reveals niche separation between bovids and equids (2012) (48)
The Pleistocene colonization of northeastern Europe: a report on recent research. (2004) (47)
'A veil of stones': on the interpretation of an early Middle Palaeolithiclow density scatter at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands) (1992) (45)
Lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Pleistocene deposits at Maastricht-Belvédère. (1985) (45)
On Neanderthal Subsistence in Last Interglacial Forested Environments in Northern Europe (2011) (45)
«Site J» : An early Weichselian (Middle Palaeolithic) flint scatter at Maastricht-Belvedere, the Netherlands (1997) (44)
Geo-archaeological investigations of Palaeolithic sites along the Ural Mountains – On the northern presence of humans during the last Ice Age (2010) (43)
The earliest occupation of Europe : proceedings of the European Science Foundation Workshop at Tautavel (France), 1993 (1995) (36)
An Energetics Perspective on the Neandertal Record (2009) (35)
Updating the Earliest Occupation of Europe (1994) (35)
Archaeology: Life on the Costa del Cromer (2005) (34)
The Eemian Interglacial lake-landscape at Neumark-Nord (Germany) and its potential for our knowledge of hominin subsistence strategies (2014) (32)
Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution (2021) (31)
Evaluating the incidence of hydrological processes during site formation through orientation analysis. A case study of the middle Palaeolithic Lakeland site of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany) (2016) (29)
Guts and Brains : An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record (2011) (29)
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: An Examination Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (29)
The Middle Palaeolithic: a point of inflection (1999) (28)
Last interglacial (Eemian) occupation of the North European plain and adjacent areas (2002) (28)
Studying human origins : Disciplinary history and epistemology (2001) (27)
The Blake Event recorded near the Eemian type locality - A diachronic onset of the Eemian in Europe (2015) (27)
Human occupation of northern Europe in MIS 13: Happisburgh Site 1 (Norfolk, UK) and its European context (2019) (26)
The Middle and Late Pleistocene sedimentary and climatic sequence at Maastricht-Be lvédère: the Type Locality of the Belvedere Interglacial (1993) (24)
17 The earliest occupation of Europe : a reappraisal of artefactual and chronological evidence (1995) (22)
Biases and double standards in palaeoanthropology (2001) (21)
Neanderthal linguistic abilities: an alternative view (2013) (21)
Fires at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany: An analysis of fire proxies from a Last Interglacial Middle Palaeolithic basin site (2016) (20)
Comment on “Late Mousterian Persistence near the Arctic Circle” (2012) (20)
Terra incognita: The Palaeolithic record of northwest Europe and the information potential of the southern North Sea (2014) (19)
Reply to Henrich et al.: The Tasmanian effect and other red herrings (2016) (17)
The Big Mosaic (1996) (16)
Reply to Sandgathe et al.: Neandertal use of fire (2011) (15)
Studying Human Origins (2001) (15)
Evidence for the Blake Event recorded at the Eemian archaeological site of Caours, France. (2015) (14)
Heating histories and taphonomy of ancient fireplaces: A multi-proxy case study from the Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Abri Pataud (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, France) (2020) (13)
Fire Usage and Ancient Hominin Detoxification Genes: Protective Ancestral Variants Dominate While Additional Derived Risk Variants Appear in Modern Humans (2016) (13)
Middle Palaeolithic Percussive Tools from the Last Interglacial Site Neumark-Nord 2/2 (Germany) and the Visibility of Such Tools in the Archaeological Record (2018) (12)
Oxygen isotope analysis of Equus teeth evidences early Eemian and early Weichselian palaeotemperatures at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark-Nord 2, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (2019) (12)
The Middle and Late Pleistocene at Maastricht-Belvédère : The type locality of the Belvédère Interglacial (1993) (11)
Uneven Data Quality and the Earliest Occupation of Europe—the Case of Untermassfeld (Germany) (2017) (10)
On the "Lower Paleolithic" Site La Belle Roche: An Alternative Interpretation (1986) (9)
The last interglacial (Eemian) lakeland of Neumark-Nord (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany): Sequencing Neanderthal occupations, assessing subsistence opportunities and prey selection based on estimations of ungulate carrying capacities, biomass production and energy values (2020) (7)
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges (2022) (7)
The environment and chronology of the earliest occupation of north-west Europe: Current knowledge, problems and new research directions (2012) (7)
Improving the chronological framework for Laugerie-Haute Ouest (Dordogne, France) (2019) (7)
Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: Tasmanian Archaeology and Reflections on Modern Human Behaviour (2014) (6)
Does disciplinary history matter? An introduction (2001) (6)
Guts and Brains (2007) (5)
Landscape modification by Last Interglacial Neanderthals (2021) (5)
A refitter's paradise: On the conjoining of artefacts at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands) (2000) (5)
Sedimentary processes, periglacial activity and stratigraphy of the loess and fluvial deposits at Maastricht-Belvédère. (1987) (4)
Environmental conditions at the Last Interglacial (Eemian) site Neumark‐Nord 2, Germany inferred from stable isotope analysis of freshwater mollusc opercula (2020) (4)
«Session extraordinaire» of the two belgian geological societies on the late Cretaceous and Quaternary in the Liège-Maastricht-Heerleen area 12-14 June 1987 (1987) (4)
Archaeology: Art on the move (2014) (4)
The Middle Palaeolithic Site Maastricht-Belvédère (Southern-Limburg, The Netherlands). A Preliminary Report (1984) (4)
Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution: ‘Forest Furniture’ or ‘Forest Managers’? On Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments (2015) (3)
Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior (2023) (3)
Evolution of Hominin Detoxification: Neanderthal and Modern Human Ah Receptor Respond Similarly to TCDD (2020) (3)
The Tautavel workshop: an introduction (1995) (2)
The Emergence of Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe (2014) (2)
Corrigendum: Pleistocene Rhine–Thames landscapes: geological background for hominin occupation of the southern North Sea region (2012) (2)
Stable isotope evidence for herbivore palaeoecology at Neumark-Nord 2 (2014) (2)
The Belvédère Project: Introduction. (1993) (2)
Comment on M. Chazan, "The language hypothesis and lithic analysis" (1995) (2)
Weichselian and Holocene Fluvial Evolution of the Vézère River Valley (Dordogne, France) (2004) (2)
Uneven Data Quality and the Earliest Occupation of Europe—the Case of Untermassfeld (Germany) (2017) (2)
Réévaluation du plus ancien peuplement de l'Europe (1995) (1)
The Homo erectus Site of Trinil: Past, Present and Future of a Historic Place (2016) (1)
Evolution of hominin detoxification: Neanderthal and modern human AHR respond similarly to TCDD (2018) (1)
Human behavioural adaptations to interglacial lakeshore environments: An introduction (2020) (1)
Oxygen isotope analyses of Equus teeth evidence Last Interglacial (Eemian) and Weichselian palaeotemperatures at Neumark-Nord 2, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (2015) (1)
Building blocks from an old brickyard (2007) (1)
Review Essay: Ancient Minds (1997) (1)
Pleistocene Rhine-Thames landscapes - a geological background for hominin occupation patterns in the southern North Sea (2012) (0)
1 The Middle Palaeolithic : a point of inflection (2007) (0)
Mismatch between MIS 5e and the Last Interglacial (Eemian) of Central Europe. (2015) (0)
Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals (2018) (0)
Neanderthal behaviour in the Eemian lakeland of Neumark (2017) (0)
Identifying Heated Rocks Through Feldspar Luminescence Analysis (pIRIR290) and a Critical Evaluation of Macroscopic Assessment (2021) (0)
Reply to McGrew: Chimpanzees do not exhibit widespread cultural diffusion. (2021) (0)
From shell beads to syntax. (2007) (0)
The diachronous Eemian (Last Interglacial) in Europe (2014) (0)
Book reviews (2009) (0)
Fire usage and ancient hominin detoxification genes (2016) (0)
Identifying Heated Rocks Through Feldspar Luminescence Analysis (pIRIR290) and a Critical Evaluation of Macroscopic Assessment (2021) (0)
Red Ochre ” Use by Early Neandertals (2011) (0)
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations. (2023) (0)
THE SILENCE OF THE STONES: ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD FOR (NEANDERTAL) LANGUAGE (2010) (0)
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges (2022) (0)
Middle Palaeolithic Percussive Tools from the Last Interglacial Site Neumark-Nord 2/2 (Germany) and the Visibility of Such Tools in the Archaeological Record (2018) (0)

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