Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans
Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans was born 28 November 1970 in Hasselt,
Education
Bringmans enrolled at the
Bringmans then continued at the same university at the Laboratory of Prehistory (Dir. Prof. Dr. (now Emeritus) Pierre M. Vermeersch), where he spent his early career, for a Ph.D. in archaeology. His doctoral dissertation (2006) read: "Multiple Middle Palaeolithic Occupations in a Loess-soil Sequence at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Limburg, Belgium".
Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans wrote his dissertation under the direction of Prof. Dr. Pierre M. Vermeersch, a Belgian geographer and archaeologist who had been trained in European prehistoric archaeology by Belgian geologist Frans Gullentops and French prehistorian François Bordes. Vermeersch worked on both the Paleolithic of Europe and Africa.
Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans is also the author of veldwezelt-hezerwater.blogspot.
Archaeological work
Dr. Bringmans has excavated widely on prehistoric
In 2006, Bringmans was appointed as Head Curator at the archaeological museum in
In 2008, Dr. Bringmans was invited to serve as a Guest Professor of
Archaeological theories
Bringmans'
.The majority of Bringmans' archaeological work has been centered on
One of his main
He claims that terrestrial sediment archives (e.g.
Bringmans believes that NW
According to Bringmans, only a few well-preserved archaeological sites such as Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Maastricht-Belvédère and Dahlen, Meudt offer unique snapshots of Middle Paleolithic people appearing in NW Europe for a short spell and then going away again.
Bringmans claims that the number of
Selected bibliography
- Bringmans, P.M.M.A., Vermeersch, P.M., Gullentops, F., Groenendijk, A.J., Meijs, E.P.M., de Warrimont, J.-P. & Cordy, J.-M. 2003. Preliminary Excavation Report on the Middle Palaeolithic Valley Settlements at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater (prov. of Limburg). Archeologie in Vlaanderen - Archaeology in Flanders 1999/2000 VII: 9-30.
- Bringmans, P.M.M.A., Vermeersch, P.M., Groenendijk, A.J., Meijs, E.P.M., de Warrimont, J.-P. & Gullentops, F. 2004. The Late Saalian Middle Palaeolithic "Lower-Sites" at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater (Limburg - Belgium). In: Le Secrétariat du Congrès (eds), Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium. September 2–8, 2001. Section 5: The Middle Palaeolithic. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 1239: 187-195.
See also
- Veldwezelt-Hezerwater
- Middle Paleolithic
- Archaeology
- Stone Age
- Levallois technique
- Neanderthal
- Paleoanthropology
- Prepared-core technique