Dr. J.c.a. Joordens
Postdoc
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Trained as a marine biologist, I completed my PhD in Earth and Life Sciences (VU University Amsterdam) in 2011, and worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology from April 2010 till January 2017. From January 2017 onwards, I continue my work at the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, while remaining affiliated to the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. My VU address is: De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Research Interest
Presently my research consists of three ongoing projects: TURKANA: This project focuses on reconstructing climate and environment in the Turkana Basin (Kenya) of ~2 million year ago, when two early Homo species together with Paranthropus boisei roamed the landscape. COASTAL ORIGINS? In 2013 I was awarded a NWO Veni Grant and started this project (see Leiden news) that aims to develop a biogeographical framework for early hominin evolution in Africa, between ~5 and 2.5 million years ago. TRINIL: My other research project centers on the rich fossil fauna from the Homo erectus type locality Trinil on Java (Indonesia). This unique collection, excavated by my scientific hero Eugène Dubois (1858-1940) and housed at Naturalis in Leiden, is a treasure trove that may hold many important clues to the behaviour and cognition of Javanese Homo erectus. Following our 2015 publication in Nature (on shell material from the Dubois Collection) we were invited by the National Research Center for Archaeology (ARKENAS, Jakarta) to collaborate in a new field study of this classical site.
Publications
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Joordens J.C.A., Dupont-Nivet Guillaume, Feibel Craig S., Spoor Fred, Sier Mark J., Lubbe Jeroen H.J.L. van der, Kellberg Nielsen Trine, Knul Monika V., Davies Gareth R. & Vonhof Hubert B. (2013), Improved age control on early Homo fossils from the upper Burgi Member at Koobi Fora, Kenya, Journal of Human Evolution 65(6): 731-745.
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Joordens J.C.A., D’Errico F, Wesselingh FP, Munro S, Vos J de, Wallinga J, Ankjærgaard C, Reimann T, Wijbrans JR, Kuiper KF, Mücher HJ, Coqueugniot H, Prié V, Joosten I, Os B van, Schulp AS, Panuel M, Haas V van der, Lustenhouwer W, Reijmer JJG & Roebroeks J.W.M. (2015), Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving, : 228–231.
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Janssen, R., Joordens, J.C.A., Koutamanis, D., Puspaningrum, M., de Vos, J., van der Lubbe, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., O. Hampe, Vonhof & H.B. (2016), Tooth enamel stable isotopes of Holocene and Pleistocene fossil fauna reveal glacial and interglacial paleoenvironments of hominins in Indonesia., Quaternary Science Reviews (144): 145-154.
