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NEWS: Spectacular discovery of first‐ever Dutch Neanderthal Fossil skull fragment unveiled by Minister Plasterk in National Museum of Antiquities
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News, PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Northwest Europe, PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology on June 15th, 2009
Foto: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (D)
For the first time ever, a fossil of a Neanderthal has been discovered in the Netherlands. The skull fragment, over 40,000 years old, with its characteristically thick Neanderthal eyebrow ridge, was found off the coast of Zeeland, dredged up from the bottom of the North Sea. Huge quantities of fossil bones have been brought to the surface from this seabed since 1874, however, this is the first time a Neanderthal fossil has been found. The unique discovery was officially unveiled on the 15th of June by Ronald Plasterk (Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science) at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, where it is on display to the public starting from June 16th.
The discovery of the first Neanderthal fossil on Dutch territory is of tremendous importance to the cultural heritage of the Netherlands and a milestone for Dutch archaeology and palaeontology. The discovery also underlines the archaeological and geological richness of the North Sea. During the Ice Age, this area was mostly a dry lowland plain rather than a sea. Stone tools of Neanderthals and large quantities of fossil bones of mammoths and other Ice Age animals have been trawled up from the bottom of the North Sea regularly. Never before have researchers found fossils of the actual Neanderthals themselves, though.
NEWS: PalArch launches its new web site
The PalArch Foundation has today launched its new web site. For the time being, only new publications are accessible, but we are going to transport our archives to the new site this summer. Of course, all publications will remain freely accessible.
The new architecture we use offers some exciting new possibilities, in particular the possibility to receive automatic updates through dedicated RSS feeds and via e-mail.
NEWS: Dick Mol & Wilrie van Logchem, A humerus of the saber-toothed cat, Homotherium crenatidens (Weithofer, 1889) dredged from the seabed between the British Islands and The Netherlands
Posted by PalArch Editor (IN) in News, PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology on May 4th, 2009
Newsletter 5, 2 (July 2008)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on July 1st, 2008
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Vertebrate Palaeontology News
News on the Archaeology of Northwest Europe
Four-year IAE meeting Rhodes André J. Veldmeijer
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections Richard H. Wilkinson
Proceedings of the 11th meeting of the Dutch 7Vertebrate Palaeontology Group Natasja den Ouden
Prof. Dr. S.K. Donovan awarded
Megalith Memory Natasja den Ouden
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
PalArch: a new design Ilja Nieuwland
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 5, 1 (January 2008)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on January 1st, 2008
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the January Issue
News on the Archaeology of Northwest Europe
Proceedings of the 10th meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group John W.M. Jagt
Palarch at the SVPCA Natasja den Ouden
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
Monsters in Manhattan and Haarlem Brian L. Beatty
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 4, 3 (October 2007)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on October 1st, 2007
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the October Issue
News on the Archaeology of Northwest Europe
Proceedings of the 9th meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
Let’s Hear it for Neanderthal! Carlos Grau
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
Museums and the Art Loss Register Ingrid Blom-Böer
Musealising University Collections Marieke van der Duin
14th Symphosium of IWGP, Kraków, Poland, 17-23 June 2007 Ingrid Heijen & Wouter van der Meer
Fishing for Fossils Natasja den Ouden
Conference Report: Nature Behind Glass Marieke van der Duin
Messel on Tour Natasja den Ouden
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 4, 2 (April 2007)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on April 1st, 2007
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the April Issue
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
Natural History Museum Rotterdam: the History and Collections of a Museum Natasja den Ouden
What is a palaeontologist? A Field Identification Guide Carlos Grau
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 4, 1 (January 2007)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on January 1st, 2007
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the January Issue
The View from Here Carlos Grau
Proceedings of the 8th meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group Natasja den Ouden
www.PalArch.nl and electronic publishing in Egyptology André J. Veldmeijer
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
Forward to the Past. An Analysis of Future-oriented Research in the Heritage Field Marieke van der Duin
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 3, 4 (October 2006)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on October 1st, 2006
News on the Activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the October Issue
An Impression of the IWAA Conference 2006
The Indonesian Wild Man. In Search of the ‘Orang-Pendek’ on Sumatra Marcel van Beurden
Dover Museum and the Dover Bronze Age Boat Peter Clark
Egypt in Photographs Zbigniew Kosc
‘Scientific Creationism’ overseas. The Export of Fundamentalist American Culture to Europe and Australia Ilja Nieuwland
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 3, 3 (July 2006)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on July 1st, 2006
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the July issue
Proceedings of the seventh meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
About Shya Chitaley André Veldmeijer
Beyond exhibits: education and research at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Shya Chitaley
Egypt in photographs Zbigniew Kosc
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 3, 2 (April 2006)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on April 1st, 2006
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Publications in the April issue
Proceedings of the sixth meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group
Egyptian Archaeology. Survey of the recent excavations Jan Brakenhoff
Egypt in photographs Zbigniew Kosc
PalArch Newsletter article: Dino Pulerà Dino Pulerà
Colophon / Call for papers
Newsletter 3, 1 (January 2006)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on January 1st, 2006
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
The travelling exhibition ‘Neanderthals in Europe’ (B. Demarsin)
Tour-de-Celt in West-central Europe. A 5-day excursion through Iron Age western Germany and eastern France (R. de Leeuwe & L. Meurkens)
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Ely Kish. Recreating a vanished world (S. Costello)
Colophon
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Newsletter 2, 4 (October 2005)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on October 1st, 2005
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Dinosaurs come to Baltimore. A summary of the ‘Dinosaur Mysteries’ exhibit at the Maryland Science Center (M.K. Goldberg)
Proceedings of the fifth meeting of the Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontology Group, Natural History Museum Maastricht April 17, 2005 (J.W.F. Reumer, Translated by H.J.M. Meijer)
Egyptian archaeology. Survey of the recent excavations (J. Brakenhoff)
Colophon
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Newsletter 2, 3 (July 2005)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on July 1st, 2005
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Der ‘Saurierfriedhof’ am Tendaguru. Auf den Spuren einer fast vergessenen Ausgrabungsexpedition in Tansania. Teil 2. (U. Oberli)
The Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Uppsala University. Past, present & future (G. Metz)
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Colophon
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Newsletter 2, 2 (April 2005)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on April 1st, 2005
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Der ‘Saurierfriedhof’ am Tendaguru. Auf den Spuren einer fast vergessenen Ausgrabungsexpedition in Tansania (U. Oberli)
Andrey Atuchin. An impression
The Allard Pierson Museum, the Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam (W. van Haarlem)
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Colophon
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Newsletter 2, 1 (January 2005)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on January 1st, 2005
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Making practical use of morphology. Teaching human anatomy as a dwindling educational resource and the call for more anatomically oriented anthropologists and vertebrate palaeontologists (B.L. Beatty)
Proceedings of the first Annual Meeting of Dutch Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 10 December, 2004, Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands (H.J.M. Meijer)
Fleshing out the details (A. Smith)
The ancient Egyptian collection at the National of Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (L.-A. Liddiard)
The future is wild (P. King)
Colophon
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Newsletter 1, 3 (October 2004)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on October 1st, 2004
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
‘Scientists don’t know how to present themselves to politicians’ Boris Dittrich on the ‘Economy of Knowledge’ (H.J.M. Meijer & A.J. Veldmeijer)
New Dutch-Flemish Palaeontological Circle (J. van Dam & F. Wesselingh)
Egypt as inspiration (A. Engels)
Native American Fossil Legends (A. Mayor)
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
The Jura-Museum Eichstätt and the natural history collections of the Bishop’s Seminary in Eichstätt, Germany (M. Kölbl-Ebert)
Colophon
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Newsletter 1, 2 (July 2004)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on July 1st, 2004
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Report of the official release by Minister Van der Hoeven (S.M. van Roode & A.J. Veldmeijer)
Entering a new millennium: the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (L. Schwappach)
The Logan Museum of Anthropology’s European Paleolithic Collections (W. Green)
The mysterious Bog people (V. van Vilsteren)
The palaeoart of Joe Tucciarone (J. Tucciarone)
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Colophon
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Newsletter 1, 1 (April 2004)
Posted by PalArch Editor (AV) in News on April 1st, 2004
News on the activities of the PalArch Foundation
Egypt in photographs (Z. Kosc)
Telling science (P. Shipman )
The history of the Palaeontological-Mineralogical Cabinet of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands (J.C. van Veen)
The Natural Sciences Library of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands (M. van Hoorn)
Sex in the museum (V. van Vilsteren)
Archaeological illustration; combining ‘old’ and new techniques (M.H. Kriek)
The pleasure of travelling to the past (C. Papolio)
The mammoths beneath the sea (D. Mol)
‘Archeologie Magazine’ in the electronic age (L. Lichtenberg)
Colophon
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