Dr. Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans
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| Industry | Science |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Archeologist / Palaeoanthropologist |
| Location | Veldwezelt, Limburg, Belgium |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Patrick Bringmans enrolled at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he received a bachelor's degree in Archaeology and Art History and where he received a master's degree in Archaeology. 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. Patrick 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. Dr. Bringmans has excavated widely on prehistoric Belgian and Egyptian sites including Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Belgium and Sodmein Cave, Egypt. Bringmans was the field director of excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Veldwezelt-Hezerwater from 1998 to 2005. He has also been co-director of the "Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project" in 1999 and 2001. In 2008, Dr. Bringmans was invited to serve as a Guest Professor of Paleoanthropology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. |
| Interests | The Veldwezelt-Hezerwater Neanderthal Sites (Lanaken, Belgium) are located in the western part of the former N.V. Vandersanden brickyard quarry, which exploited the loess deposits of the Hezerwater Valley. Scientific research of the quarry started in 1995 and ended in 2005. The excavation campaigns were directed by Leuven University archaeologist Dr. Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (Laboratory of Prehistory - Dir. Prof. Dr. Pierre M. Vermeersch), in close collaboration with the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren, the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage (IAP) of the Flemish Community, the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO), the Province of Limburg, Belgium, the Province of Limburg, The Netherlands, the Community of Lanaken, the Community of Riemst and the City of Maastricht. The excavation teams were made up from an international party of excavators. More than 200 students from Leuven University (B), from Gent University (B), from Amsterdam University (NL), from Leiden University (NL), from Groningen University (NL), from Düsseldorf University (D), from Lethbridge University (Canada), from Pittsburg University (USA), from York University (UK), from University College London (UK) and from Cambridge University (UK) joined the project over the years. |