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Prof. Dr. Philippe Crombé
Prof. Dr. Philippe Crombé
philippe.crombe@ugent.be
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Department
Department of Archaeology
Research group(s)
ARCHAEO - Archaeology
Research Focus
Archaeology
Research Period
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Research Region
Belgium
Western Europe
Research Methodology
Field research
Geographic and map based
Surveys
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Learning from the past (LEAP): The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium
(
2023
-
2026
)
ORG-ID. Identification and 14C dating of organic materials in archaeological ceramics
(
2023
-
2025
)
Climate change and human response at the pleistocene-holocene transition in the Belgian Meuse basin (13,000-6000 cal BP)
(
2023
-
2026
)
Rapid climate changes during the Mesolithic: Impact on man and environment in the southern part of the NW European plain
(
2022
-
2027
)
ROAM. Regional outlook on ancient migration
(
2022
-
2027
)
Valther Tweeling soil monitoring
(
2021
-
2023
)
Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies
(
2020
-
2025
)
Investigating the role of rivers during the late glacial recolonization of NW Europe: A multidisciplinary assessment of final palaeolithic sites in the Scheldt valley (Belgium)
(
2019
-
2022
)
Lateglacial and early holocene lithic technology in the Belgian Scheldt valley
(
2019
-
2021
)
An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa
(
2018
-
2022
)
Drowning landscapes along the Scheldt. Threat or opportunity? Shifting prehistoric land-use along changing waterways during the early and middle holocene
(
2017
-
2020
)
Geotechnics and archaeological prospection
(
2016
-
2019
)
The impact of the physical characteristics of flint and their weathering on the preservation of prehistoric use wear traces
(
2016
-
2020
)
The roles of demic diffusion and/or local adoption in the transitions toward agropastoral neolithic lifeways in the Scheldt basin
(
2015
-
2019
)
Large-scale, multidisciplinary investigation of a mesolithic wetland site in the floodplain of the upper Scheldt at Kerkhove
(
2015
-
2019
)
The land-sea transition zone at Doelpolder Noord. The impact of sea level rise on the palaeolandscape and human occupation
(
2011
-
2015
)
Prehistoric climate change: ecosystem and human responses in the Scheldt basin (NW Belgium)
(
2008
-
2028
)
Prehistoric settlement and land-use systems in sandy Flanders. A diachronic and geo-archaeological approach
(
2008
-
2012
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Playing with fire: Disentangling anthropogenic and climate induced fire events during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the sandy lowlands of Belgium and the southern Netherlands
(
2024
-
2027
)
MesoMag. A geophysical perspective on mesolithic land use in complex environments
(
2023
-
2027
)
In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations
(
2019
-
2023
)
Scanning electron microscopy at the core of earth sciences. Reading 4 billion years of history in backscattered light
(
2019
-
2020
)
FLEPOSTORE. Flemish pottery and stone reference collection
(
2018
-
2020
)
Studying the origin and use of the oldest prehistoric pottery in north Belgium using high-end mass spectrometric methods
(
2017
-
2021
)
Lateglacial and Holocene environmental evolution of the Middle and Lower Scheldt basin in northern Belgium. A pollen and diatom study
(
2015
-
2019
)
Publications
Key publications
A sealed flint knapping site from the Younger Dryas in the Scheldt valley (Belgium): bridging the gap in human occupation at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in W Europe
(2014
)
Philippe Crombé
Joris Sergant
Arne Verbrugge
Arne De Graeve
Bart Cherretté
Jari Mikkelsen
Veerle Cnudde
Tim De Kock
Hans DJ Huisman
Bertil JH van Os
Mark Van Strydonck
Mathieu Boudin
C-14 dates as demographic proxies in Neolithisation models of northwestern Europe: a critical assessment using Belgium and northeast France as a case-study
(2014
)
Philippe Crombé
Erick Robinson
Chronology of peatland hydrological dynamics and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the southern North Sea basin: a Bayesian approach
(2013
)
Jeroen Verhegge
Erick Robinson
Mark Van Strydonck
Philippe Crombé
Contact and interaction between early farmers and late hunter-gatherers in Belgium during the 6th and 5th millennium calBC
(2010
)
Philippe Crombé
Dating the Mesolithic of the Low Countries : some methodological considerations
(1999
)
Philippe Crombé
Henny Groenendijk
Mark Van Strydonck
Early pottery in hunter-gatherer societies of Western Europe
(2009
)
Philippe Crombé
European mesolithic: geography and culture
(2014
)
Philippe Crombé
Erick Robinson
Hunter-gatherer responses to environmental change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the southern North Sea basin: final Palaeolithic-Final Mesolithic land use in northwest Belgium
(2011
)
Philippe Crombé
Joris Sergant
Erick Robinson
Jeroen De Reu
Hunter-gatherer responses to the changing environment of the Moervaart palaeolake (NW Belgium) during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene
(2013
)
Philippe Crombé
Philippe De Smedt
Neil Davies
Vanessa Gelorini
Ann Zwertvaegher
Roger Langohr
Dirk Van Damme
Hendrik Demiddele
Mark Van Strydonck
Marc Antrop
Jean Bourgeois
Philippe De Maeyer
Jeroen De Reu
Peter Finke
Marc Van Meirvenne
Jacques Verniers
In search of sealed palaeolithic and mesolithic sites using core sampling: the impact of grid size, meshes and auger diameter on discovery probability
(2015
)
Philippe Crombé
Jeroen Verhegge
Mesolithic hearth-pits: fact or fantasy? A reassessment based on the evidence from the sites of Doel and Verrebroek (Belgium)
(2015
)
Philippe Crombé
Roger Langohr
Geertrui Louwagie
Middle-Holocene alluvial forests and associated fluvial environments: a multi-proxy reconstruction from the lower Scheldt, N Belgium
(2014
)
Koen Deforce
Annelies Storme
Jan Bastiaens
Sofie Debruyne
Luc Denys
Anton Ervynck
Erwin Meylemans
Herman Stieperaere
Wim Van Neer
Philippe Crombé
Neolithic pottery finds at the wetland site of Bazel-Kruibeke (Flanders, Belgium): evidence of long-distance forager-farmer contact during the late 6th and 5th millennium cal BC in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt area
(2015
)
Philippe Crombé
Joris Sergant
Yves Perdaen
Erwin Meylemans
Koen Deforce
Radiocarbon chronology and the correlation of hunter-gatherer sociocultural change with abrupt palaeoclimate change: the Middle Mesolithic in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt area of northwest Europe
(2013
)
Erick Robinson
Mark Van Strydonck
Vanessa Gelorini
Philippe Crombé
The 'invisible' hearths: a contribution to the discernment of Mesolithic non-structured surface hearths
(2006
)
Joris Sergant
Philippe Crombé
Yves Perdaen
Most recent publications
van Asch, Nelleke, et al. “Vegetation Response to Early Holocene Cooling Events in the Moervaart Region (Northwestern Belgium).”
BOREAS
, vol. 54, no. 1, 2025, pp. 140–55, doi:10.1111/bor.12680.
Vandendriessche, Hans, et al. “Continental France and the Benelux.”
The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe
, edited by Liv Nilsson Stutz et al., Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 280–301, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198853657.013.14.
Crombé, Philippe. “Early and Middle Holocene Climate and Environmental Change.”
The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe
, edited by Liv Nilsson Stutz et al., Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 33–50, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198853657.013.2.
Crombé, Philippe, and Roger Langohr. “Burnt Ant Nests and Their Parallels with Mesolithic Charcoal-Rich Pits : A Comment on Huisman et al. (2024).”
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
, vol. 176, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2025.106186.
Schmidt, Isabell, et al. “Large Scale and Regional Demographic Responses to Climatic Changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic.”
PLOS ONE
, vol. 20, no. 4, 2025, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0310942.
Full bibliography
Teaching
General Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Prospection and Excavation Techniques
Introduction to Material Studies