When we think about the migration of Homo Sapiens out of Africa we imagine world maps with large curved arrows suggesting that our species set out on an epic journey to conquer the world 70.000 years ago. Prof. Philip Van Peer, however, warns us that the reality was probably not so st
The board of the Eugène Dubois Foundation has the honour to invite you to attend the Eugène Dubois summer lecture “When did Homo Sapiens leave Africa?” on Sunday 19 June from 11.00 – 13.00. The speaker will be Prof. Filip Van Peer and the lecture will be in Dutch. Pr
Prof. Mark Stoneking (1956) is the second professor to be appointed as the annually rotating Eugène Dubois Chair at Maastricht University. Prof. Stoneking gave his inaugural lecture on “Genes, culture and human evolution” at Maastricht University on Thursday 3 March. It is
We are very pleased to announce that we will officially open the Eugène Dubois rooms in the Ursuline Convent in Eijsden on 27 February 2016 at 16.00. The event will be attended by Mr. G. Jacobs, city councillor for the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten, and Prof. Mark Stoneking, the n
On Sunday 13 December, 11.00, Jean-Pierre de Warrimont gave a lecture in Dutch at the Family Museum in Eijsden about Eugène Dubois and his search for the missing link. Jean-Pierre de Warrimont is a physicist with special interests in paleolithic archaeology and Eugène Dubois. He is al
For our last board meeting on Tuesday 1 December, we decided to take a look at the new stairway at the ENCI quarry in Maastricht. Our Secretary Wiel Schins, who is also the President of the Limburg branch of the Dutch Geological Association, has been involved in the transformation of
Prof. Dr. Frans de Waal gave a lecture on Tuesday 3 november 2015 at 20h00 in the aula, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht. The lecture (in Dutch) was organised by Studium Generale and the Eugène Dubois Foundation. For more information, please visit the Studium Generale website. Watch
On 13 September 2015 Prof. Dr. Raymond Corbey gave a lecture in Eijsden about the different theories related to the making of handaxes by our ancestor Homo Erectus. Not only did Prof. Corbey present the three competing paradigms currently popular among paleontologists but he revealed
The Eugène Dubois Foundation is very proud of its new acquisition, a replica of the statue of Pithecanthropus erectus (Java Man) sculpted originally by Eugène Dubois himself for the Paris World Fair of 1900. The original statue was exhibited in the building that now houses the famous