Luc Amkreutz
Professor by Special Appointment Public Archaeology
- Name
- Prof.dr. L.W.S.W. Amkreutz
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- l.w.s.w.amkreutz@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4664-5552
Luc Amkreutz is a Professor by Special Appointment in Public Archaeology.
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Leiden archaeologists contribute to unique Iron Age exhibition in Oss -
Doggerland shortlisted for the annual EAA Book Prize -
Leiden research on Neanderthals featured in the Wall Street Journal article -
Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles -
Neanderthal glue from the North Sea -
Burial mound research in National Geographic Historia -
Skull 'oldest Dutchman' retrieved from North Sea bed
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Research
Luc Amkreutz is a curator of the Prehistoric collection in the RMO/NMA, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. His research interests include Stone and Bronze Age archaeology and material culture. He is involved in particular with the process of Neolithisation in Northwest Europe and the Prehistoric archeology of submerged Doggerland. Amkreutz is also involved in the communication of archaeology to a wider audience, citizen science, and public outreach, through exhibitions and many other projects. In 2022 he was appointed Professor of Public Archaeology at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, by special appointment on behalf of the NMA. Amkreutz is currently involved in the NWO project Resurfacing Doggerland, focusing on the postglacial, material culture of the drowned North sea area. He is also working on an exhibition on the Bronze Age in the Low Countries in a European context which is scheduled for the end of 2024. Other research includes the Early Neolithic of the Low Countries, the Linearbandkeramik, and the process of Neolithisation.
Teaching activities
Amkreutz is involved in various courses as a guest lecturer and as theses supervisor.
Curriculum vitae
Luc Amkreutz (Heerlen, 1978) studied Prehistory at Leiden University. He graduated in 2004 on a study about the earliest farmers in the Netherlands and was involved in several research projects at home and abroad. His PhD research (2013) concerned the neolithisation process in the Lower Rhine basin: Persistent Traditions. A long-term perspective on communities in the process of Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area (6000-2500 cal BC). In 2008 he succeeded Leo Verhart as Curator of the Prehistory Collection at the National Museum of Antiquities. Luc Amkreutz is intensively involved in diverse research into prehistory in Northwest Europe and its public communication. Together with a working group, he organises the annual Stone Age Day. As of April 1st 2022 Amkreutz on behalf of the National Museum of Antiquities has been appointed as professor of Public Archaeology (by special appointment) at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
Focus area
Since his studies, Amkreutz has focused on the Stone Age and in particular the Mesolithic and Neolithic in the Netherlands and Northwest Europe. The research into the Linearbandkeramik Culture and the cultures after it, as well as the neolithisation process, form a common thread. The prehistoric archaeology of the North Sea, the lost Doggerland, also has his special interest. The connection between mankind and material culture and landscape and climate change is central to this. He is also interested in the history of prehistory and the Ancient Europe collection. Research often takes place in cooperation with Leiden University and other partners and includes material studies, fieldwork, and public communication. Important focal points are citizen science, the optimization of cooperation with amateur archaeologists, the translation and valuation of scientific archaeological information, and the role of archaeological heritage in society.
Professor by Special Appointment Public Archaeology
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archaeological Heritage
- Archaeological Heritage Management
- Posth C., Yu H., Ghalichi A., Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Huang Y., Ringbauer H., Rohrlach A.B., Nägele K., Villalba-Mouco V., Radzeviciute R., Ferraz T., Stoessel A., Tukhbatova R., Drucker D.G., Lari M., Modi A., Vai S., Saupe T., Scheib C.L., Catalano G., Pagani L., Talamo S., Fewlass H., Klaric L., Morala A., Rué M., Madelaine S., Crépin L., Caverne J.P., Bocaege E., Ricci S., Boschin F., Bayle P., Maureille B., Le Brun-Ricalens F., Bordes J.G., Oxilia G., Bortolini E., Bignon-Lau O., Debout G., Orliac M., Zazzo A., Sparacello V., Starnini E., Sineo L., Plicht J. van der, Pecqueur L., Merceron G., Garcia G., Leuvrey J.M., Bay Garcia C., Gómez-Olivencia A., Połtowicz-Bobak M., Bobak D., Le Luyer M., Storm P., Hoffmann C., Kabaciński J., Filimonova T., Shnaider S., Berezina N., González-Rabanal B., González Morales M.R., Marín-Arroyo A.B., López B., Alonso-Llamazares C., Ronchitelli A., Polet C., Jadin I., Cauwe N., Soler J., Coromina N., Rufí I., Cottiaux R., Clark G., Straus L.G., Julien M.A., Renhart S., Talaa D., Benazzi S., Romandini M., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Bocherens H., Wißing C., Villotte S., Fernández-López de Pablo J., Gómez-Puche M., Esquembre-Bebia M.A., Bodu P., Smits L., Souffi B., Jankauskas R., Kozakaitė J., Cupillard C., Benthien H., Wehrberger K., Schmitz R.W., Feine S.C., Schüler T., Thevenet C., Grigorescu D., Lüth F., Kotula A., Piezonka H., Schopper F., Svoboda J., Sázelová S., Chizhevsky A., Khokhlov A., Conard N.J., Valentin F., Harvati K., Semal P., Jungklaus B., Suvorov A., Schulting R., Moiseyev V., Mannermaa K., Buzhilova A., Terberger T., Caramelli D., Altena E., Haak W. & Krause J. (2023), Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers, Nature 615: 117-126.
- Altena E. & Amkreutz L. (2023), Europa’s vroege bewoning vanuit een genetisch perspectief, Archeologie in Nederland 7(4): 46-49.
- Amkreutz L. (2023), Archeologie is altíjd publiek, RMO magazine (55): 31.
- Jansen R., Vaart-Verschoof S. van der, Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Wijk I. van (2023), Elite in de ijzertijd : de Vorst van Oss en tijdgenoten, Archeologie Magazine 2023(4): 44-47.
- Hurk S. van den, Sikström F., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Bleasdale M., Borvon A., Ephrem B., Fernández-Rodríguez C., Gibbs H.M.B., Jonsson L., Lehouck A., Cedeira J., Meng S., Monge R., Moreno M., Nabais M., Nores C., Pis-Millán J.A., Riddler I., Schmölcke U., Segschneider M., Speller C., Vretemark M., Wickler S., Collins M., Nadeau M.J. & Barrett J.H. (2023), The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting, Royal Society Open Science 10(9): 230741.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Niekus M.J.L.T. (2023), The Dutch masters? : Art, decoration and ornaments in the Upper Late-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of the Netherlands and Doggerland 13000-5000 BC. Grünberg J.M., Gramsch B., Petersen E.B., Płonka T. & Meller H. (Eds.), Mesolithic art - abstraction, decoration, messages: International Conference Halle (Saale), Germany, 19th-21st September 2019. Mesolithic art. Abstraction, decoration, messages. International and interdisciplinary conference Halle (Saale), Germany, 19 September 2019 - 21 January 2019. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle no. 26: Landesamt f. Denkmalpflege u. Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt. 55-90.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2022), A view from Doggerland : interpreting the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the wetlands of the Rhine-Meuse delta (5,500 – 2,500 calBC) . Klimscha F., Heumuller M., Raemaekers D., Peeters H. & Terberger T. (Eds.), Stone Age borderland experience: Neolithic and Late Mesolithic parallel societies in the North European plain. . Materialhefte zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Niedersachsens no. 60. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH In Kommission bei VML. 311-326.
- Dusseldorp G.L., Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Out W.A. (2022), Move along, move along: Neolithic foragers, mobility, and settlement systems ~4000 BCE in the Dutch Wetland. SAA Conference 30 March 2022 - 3 April 2022.
- Dusseldorp G.L., Raczynski-Henk Y. & Amkreutz L. (2022), -250.000: de allereerste bewoners van ‘Nederland’. In: Heerma van Voss L., Bouras N., t'Hart M., Heijden M. van der & Lucassen L. (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos. 13-18.
- Arnoldussen S., Huisman H., Os B. van, SteffensB. & Theunissen L. (2022), A not so isolated fringe: Dutch later prehistoric (c. 2200 BCE-AD 0) bronze alloy networks from compositional analyses on metals and corrosion layers, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 46: 18 (103684).
- Evershed R.P., Davey Smith G., Roffet-Salque M. & et al. (2022), Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe, Nature 608: 336-345.
- Wijk I.M. van, Amerongen Y.F. van, Baetsen S., Gijn A.L. van, Laan J. van der, Maule C., Roffet-Salque M., Verbaas A. & Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2022), Elsloo-Koolweg REvisited: science-based perspectives on the burials and grave goods of the Linear Bandkeramik burial ground of Elsloo-Koolweg. Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten no. 76. Amersfoort: Cultural Heritage Agency.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Fontijn D.R. (2022), -5250. De belangrijkste migratie ooit. In: Heerma van Voss L., Bouras N., Hart M. 't, Heijden M. van der & Lucassen L. (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos. 26-32.
- Amkreutz L. & Peeters H. (2022), -8000. Doggerland. In: , Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland: Ambo Anthos. 19-25.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Vaart S.A. van der (Eds.) (2022), Doggerland: lost world under the North Sea. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Out W.A., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Casparie W.A. & (2022), Spatial analysis of charcoal and wood: the case study of the late neolithic site of Hekelingen III, the Netherlands (2900– 2500 BCE), Journal of Wetland Archaeology : .
- Amkreutz L. & Van Wijk I. (2022), Graven uit respect. : Een nieuw analyse van de oudste begraafplaats van Nederland,, Archeologie in Nederland 6(6): 2-9.
- Tanis K. & Amkreutz L. (2022), -Zeldzame vondst van een opperarmbeen van een Europese wilde kat : Felis silvestris silvestris Schreber, 1777, op Maasvlakte 2, Cranium 39(2): 40-49.
- Patterson N., Isakov M., Booth T., Büster L., Fischer C., Olalde I., Ringbauer H., Akbari A., Cheronet O., Bleasdale M., Adamski N., Altena E., Bernardos R., Brace S., Broomandkhoshbacht N., Callan K., Candilio F., Culleton B., Curtis E., Demetz L., Duffett Carlson K.S., Fernandes D.M., Foody M.G.B., Freilich S., Goodchild H., Kearns A., Lawson A.M., Lazaridis I., Mah M., Mallick S., Mandl K, Micco A., Michel M., Bravo Morante G., Oppenheimer J., Toykan Özdoğan K., Qiu L., Schattke C., Stewardson K., Workman J.N., Zalzala F., Zhang Z., Agustí B., Allen T., Almássy K., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Ash A., Baillif-Ducros C., Barclay A., Bartosiewicz L., Baxter K., Bernert Z., Blažek J., Bodružić M., Boissinot P., Bonsall C., Bradley P., Brittain M., Brookes A., Brown F., Brown L., Brunning R., Budd C., Burmaz J., Canet S., Carnicero-Cáceres S., Čaušević-Bully M., Chamberlain A., Chauvin S., Clough S., Čondić N., Coppa A., Craig O., Črešnar M., Cummings V., Czifra S., Danielisová A., Daniels R., Davies A., Jersey P. de, Deacon J., Deminger C., Ditchfield P.W., Dizdar M., Dobeš M., Dobisíková M., Domboróczki L., Drinkall G., Đukić A., Edwards C.J., Ernée M., Evans C., Evans J., Fernández-Götz M., Filipović S., Fitzpatrick A., Fokkens H., Fowler C., Fox A., Gallina Z., Gamble M., González Morales M.R., González-Rabanal B., Green A., Gyenesei K., Habermehl D., Hajdu T., Hamilton D., Harris J., Hayden C., Hendriks J., Hernu B., Hey G., Horňák M., Ilon G., Istvánovits E., Jones A.M., Blečić Kavur M., Kazek K., Kenyon R.A., Khreisheh A., Kiss V., Kleijne J., Knight M., Kootker L.M., Kovács P.F., Kozubová A., Kulcsár G., Kulcsár V., Le Pennec C., Legge M., Leivers M., Loe L., López-Costas O., Lord T., Los Dž., Lyall J., Marín-Arroyo A.B., Mason P., Matošević D., Maxted A., McIntyre L., McKinley J., McSweeney K., Meijlink B., Mende B.G., Menđušić M., Metlička M., Meyer S., Mihovilić K., Milasinovic L., Minnitt S., Moore J., Morley G., Mullan G., Musilová M., Neil B., Nicholls R., Novak M., Pala M., Papworth M., Paresys C., Patten R., Perkić D., Pesti K., Petit A., Petriščáková K., Pichon C., Pickard C., Pilling Z., Price T.D., Radović S., Redfern R., Resutík B., Rhodes D.T., Richards M.B., Roberts A., Roefstra J., Sankot P., Šefčáková A., Sheridan A., Skae S., Šmolíková M., Krisztina Somogyi Ágnes Somogyvári Mark Stephens Géza Szabó Anna Szécsényi-Nagy Tamás Szeniczey Tabor J., Tankó K., Tavarez Maria C., Terry C., Teržan B., Teschler-Nicola M., Torres-Martínez J.F., Trapp J., Turle R., Ujvári F., Heiden M. van der, Veleminsky P., Veselka B., Vytlačil Z., Waddington C., Ware P., Wilkinson P., Wilson L., Wiseman R., Young E., Zaninović J., Žitňan A., Lalueza-Fox C., Knijff P. de, Barnes I., Halkon P., Thomas M.G., Kennett D.J., Cunliffe B., Lillie M., Rohland N., Pinhasi R., Armit I. & Reich D. (2021), Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age, Nature 601: 588-594.
- Dusseldorp G.L. & Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2020), A long slow goodbye – Re-examining the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition (5500 – 2500 BCE) in the Dutch delta. In: Klinkenberg V., Oosten R. van & Driel-Murray C. van (Eds.), A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 50: Sidestone Press. 121-142.
- Amkreutz L., Dusseldorp G.L., Langejans G.H.J. & Niekus M. (2020), Berkenpek uit de Noordzee: Een zeldzame vondst werpt licht op het gedrag van neanderthaler, Archeologie in Nederland 4(1): 10-17.
- Amkreutz L., Dusseldorp G.L., Langejans G.H.J. & Niekus M. (2020), Berkenpek uit de Noordzee: Een zeldzame vondst werpt licht op het gedrag van neanderthaler, Archeologie in Nederland 4(1): 10-17.
- Bourgeois Q., Fontijn D., Louwen A.J., Jansen R., Kuijpers M., Amkreutz L. & Soressi M. (29 June 2020), Prehistorie was niet zo wit als in de canon. De Volkskrant, Opinie en Debat: 24.
- Amkreutz L, Fontijn D.R. & Gentile V. (2020), Gevechtsporen op een bronstijdzwaard uit Thorn-Wessem, Archeologie in Nederland 4(4): 48-50.
- Amkreutz L. & Dusseldorp G.L. (28 June 2019), Maak van Herijking van de Canon van Nederland een archeologische verrijking. Trouw, Opinie.
- Niekus M.J.L.T., Kozowyk P.R.B., Langejans G.H.J., Ngan-Tillard D., Van Keulen H., Van der Plicht J., Cohen K.H., Van Wingerden W., Van Os B., Smit B.I., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Johansen L., Verbaas A. & Dusseldorp G.L. (2019), Middle Paleolithic complex technology and a Neandertal tar-backed tool from the Dutch North Sea, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(44): 22081-22087.
- Amkreutz L., Fontijn D.R. & Gentile V. (2019), Down by the River. A Late Bronze Age full-hilted sword from the river Meuse near Thorn and Wessem. In: Arnoldussen S., Ball E.A.G., Dijk J. van, Norde E. & Vries N. de (Eds.), Metaaltijden 6.. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 113-121.
- Gentile V., Gijn A.L. van & Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2019), Op het scherpst van de snede: gevechtssporen op prehistorische zwaarden, Archeologie in Nederland 3(4): 56-59.
- Amkreutz L. & Fontijn D.R. (2018), Bringing it all back home. The Ommerschans hoard returns to the Netherlands after almost a century, Past. Newsletter of the PRehistoric Society 88(1): .
- Fontijn D.R. & Amkreutz L. (2018), Het verzonken zwaard van Ommerschans. In: Heerma van Voss L., Hart M. 't, Davids K., Fatah-Black K., Lucassen L. & Touwen J. (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo. 39-44.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Verpoorte A., Waters A.L., Niekus M., Heekeren V. van, Merwe A. van der, Plicht J. van der, Glimmerveen J., Stapert D. & Johansen L. (2018), What lies beneath... Late Glacial human occupation of the submerged North Sea landscape, Antiquity 92(361): 22-37.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W. & Dusseldorp G.L. (2018), -70.000: Sporen van Neanderthalers. In: Heerma van Voss L., Hart M. 't, Davids K., Fatah-Black K., Lucassen L. & Touwen J. (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: AmboAnthos. 21-26.
- Amkreutz L., Bourgeois Q.P.J., Feiken R., Heiden M. van der, Hemelaar R., Orbons J., Rensink E., Theunissen L., Verbeek B. & Verschoof-Van der Vaart W.B. (2018), Geofysische technieken op prehistorische grafheuvels. Wat levert het op?, Archeologie in Nederland (2): .
- Amkreutz L. & Fontijn D.R. (2017), Het zwaard van Ommerschans. Een stuk van buitengewoon belang, Archeologie in Nederland 1(5): 46-51.
- Anonymous (2017), Verstopt op de Veluwe [Verstopt op de Veluwe] (translation: Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Bourgeois Q.P.J., Schreurs J. & Vossen N.), Archeologie Magazine 1(1): 16-20.
- Postma H., Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Fontijn D.R., Kamermans H., Kockelmann W.A., Schillebeeckx P. & Visser D. (2017), Neutron-based analyses of three Bronze Age metal objects: a closer look at the Buggenum, Jutphaas and Escharen artefacts. In: Kamermans H. & Bakels C.C. (Eds.), Excerpta Archaeologica Leidensia II. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 47. Leiden: P.J.R. Modderman Stichting. 37-57.
- Amkreutz L.W.S.W., Verhart L. & Gijn A.L. van (2016), Vlaardingen-cultuur en Stein-groep. In: Amkreutz L, Brounen F, Machiels R, Oorsouw M.F. van & Smit B. (Eds.), Vuursteen verzameld: over het zoeken en onderzoeken van steentijdvondsten en -vindplaatsen. Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten no. 50. Amersfoort: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. 169-175.
- Vaart S. van der & Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2013), Haaks op de IJzertijd? Een bijzonder grafassemblage uit de Late IJzertijd uit Emmen, Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak 130: .
- Vaart S.A. van der & Amkreutz L.W.S.W. (2013), Oss-Zevenbergen: nieuwe informatie over een bijzondere grafheuvelgroep, Archeologie Magazine 2013(4): .
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