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
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
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
The Dutch primatologist and ethologist Prof. Frans de Waal is the first professor to be appointed to the annually rotating Eugène Dubois Chair. He accepted his nomination with a public lecture on 3 October, entitled ‘The measure of all things? Ape and Human Cognition’.