Date: Monday 3 October, 20:00 Location: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 Speaker: Prof. Carel van Schaik, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich Description: From before the classic Greek period until the early 20th c

Neanderthals on De Kaap in Rijckholt-St Geertruid, lecture in Dutch. Sunday 5 March from 11:00-13:00 in the Ursuline Convent Chapel, Breusterstraat 27, Eijsden. Speaker: Mr. Yannick Raczynski-Henk, Stone Age archeology at the University of Leiden and ADC ArcheoProjecten. Brief summary

On 18 December 2016, Dutch Paleontologist John de Vos will hold a lecture about the Eugene Dubois collection at the Naturalis Diversity Centre in Leiden. For more information, please visit our Dutch website. Dubois collection Eugene Dubois collected vertebrates at the end of the 19th

Fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence are united in supporting a recent African origin of modern humans and dispersal out of Africa within the past 60,000-80,000 years. However, given that archaic humans (such as Neanderthals) preceded the exodus of modern humans out of Africa

On Sunday 19 September 2016, Prof. Dr. George Maat gave a lecture on the bipedalisation process in the human evolution. Dr. Maat vividly explained how the human anatomy slowly adapted over a period of 5 to 6 million years to a new way of of moving – from a quadruped to a biped .

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

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

On March 22 2015, zooarchaeologist Dr. José Joordens gave a lecture in Eijsden (near Maastricht, the Netherlands) in a place situated about 100 metres from Eugène Dubois’ birth house. Topic: the discovery of an intentionally scrached shell, and of a number of shells which were c