Gerrit Dusseldorp
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. G.L. Dusseldorp
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2428
- g.l.dusseldorp@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6147-710X
Gerrit Dusseldorp is an expert on the behaviour of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers both in Northwest Europe and South Africa.
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News
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Researchers and members of the public bring a sustainable world a little closer -
The future of the past is enough to make you feel down -
‘Media appearances are less scary than you might think’: Researchers share their top tips -
Gerrit Dusseldorp joins Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Programme: ‘Archaeologists can provide the time-depth perspective’ -
Organising a sustainable academic event at Archaeology: ‘You will be surprised how many people actually enjoy it’ -
High media coverage of innovative research presenting a new method for recovering ancient human DNA -
Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article -
Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum -
They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries -
Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp in Discover Magazine on Neanderthal extinction
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Archaeologists Involved in Ambitious Study on Past Land Use -
Shift in scientific consensus about demise of Neanderthals -
New investigation of South African rock shelter sheds light into Middle and Later Stone Age modern human behaviour -
Neanderthal glue from the North Sea -
Archaeologists in action: stories from the field -
Digging into stone age secrets -
Archaeologists in action: stories from the field -
The garden of Eden is Africa -
What makes us human? Or modern human? -
Dental tartar unfolds Neanderthal secrets
Blogs
Office days
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Research
Gerrit’s research is primarily on the development of characteristically modern human behaviour in southern Africa during the past 100 000 years. He has published extensively on the palaeoecological setting of human occupations at key sites such as Blombos Cave and Klasies River. He has also analysed the development of technology and subsistence behaviour throughout the Middle Stone Age. Gerrit is currently setting up a fieldwork project in KwaZulu-Natal aimed at illuminating the transition from the Middle Stone Age to the Later Stone Age (~40 – 20 000 years ago) and the influence of the Last Glacial Maximum on hunter-gatherer subsistence economies.
Another area of interest is the transition from hunter-gatherers to food producers. Gerrit has studied the transition to farming in the Low countries and has also worked on the introduction of livestock in southern African hunter-gatherer societies and the development of pastoralism.
He is also involved in debates on the protection of archaeological heritage in the Netherlands and has published research on the implications of the introduction of the Heritage Law in July 2016.
Teaching activities
Gerrit is the MA thesis coordinator for Global Archaeology. Besides that, he teaches the MA course Area Specialisation Europe.
Curriculum vitae
Gerrit Dusseldorp is an expert on the behaviour of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers both in Northwest Europe and South Africa. He completed a PhD at Leiden University (2009) on Neanderthal subsistence economies. He also studied the ecological relationships between Neanderthals and other Ice Age carnivores, such as Cave hyenas. After completing his PhD, he pursued his post-doctoral research in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand (2009 – 2012) and, subsequently the University of Johannesburg (2013 – 2016).
Gerrit Dusseldorp is one of the initiators of Archaeologists4Future.
Associate professor
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Human Origins