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Prof. Dr. Philippe Crombé

philippe.crombe@ugent.be

Department

Department of Archaeology

Research group(s)

ARCHAEO - Archaeology

Research Focus

Research Period

Prehistory (Stone Age)

Research Region

Research Methodology

Geographic and map based

Tabgroup

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Climate change and human response at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Belgian Meuse basin (13,000-6000 cal BP) (2023 - 2026)
LEAP. Learning from the past. The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium (2023 - 2025)
ROAM. Regional outlook on ancient migration (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)
Lateglacial and early holocene lithic technology in the Belgian Scheldt valley (2019 - 2021)
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)
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

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

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