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NEWS: On
June 21st 2009 I was a guest in the Dutch VPRO radio program O.V.T. on
Radio 1, with an item about Neandertals. The podcast (mp3, in Dutch)
can be listened/downloaded here.
The item with me starts at 0:10:10 in the recording.
NEW (June 14 2009): asteroid named after Eugène Dubois, the father of palaeoanthropology
NEWS (10 March 2009): on
March 10 I was interviewed about my archaeological research on Dutch
national radio in the live VPRO science program "Noorderlicht" on Radio
1. Listen to the broadcast (in Dutch) here.
NEWS (24 August 2008): The International Astronomical Union
(IAU) has officially named an asteroid after me, asteroid 183294 Langbroek!
Read more here.
NEW!: My research related website www.palaeolithic.nl
NEW (Updated Feb 22 2008): I was interviewed for the well-watched news backgrounds program NOVA on our National television channel 2 yesterday, about the out of control US spy satellite USA 193 shot to pieces by the US Navy on Feb 21st. The broadcast (in Dutch) can be seen on the internet here. Earlier this month I was interviewed by the Dutch radio channel Radio 5 too. An mp3 of the broadcast (in Dutch) can be heard here, the 8-minute item about USA 193 starts at 9m15s in the recordingNEWS! (Dec 13 2007): NWO has awarded me a VENI-grant! This means that early 2008 I will start in a 4-year post-doc position at the Institute for Geo- and Bio-Archaeology (IGBA) at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. See also my special website www.palaeolithic.nl
NEWS: I discovered my first Near Earth asteroid! See the Spacewatch FMO Project news page (entry 9th April 2005) and A/CC of 10 April 2005, as well as the official announcement by the Minor Planet Center in Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2005-G73. SW40LW is now officially designated as 2005 GG81 and is an Amor class asteroid, approximately 30 yards in diameter.
Welcome,
dear visitor, to my website! Before discussing the content of this
website, let
me first briefly introduce myself: my name is Dr Marco
Langbroek and I am a professional
stone age archaeologist, working at the Institute for Geo- and
Bioarchaeology (IGBA) at the VU University in
Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. My specialization is in
the archaeology
of the Early
and Middle Palaeolithic. I obtained my Ph.D. at Leiden
University on the
dissertation 'Out of Africa: a study into the earliest
occupation of the Old
World', on
October 9th, 2003. Currently, I am conducting a 4-year NWO-funded
research titled "Neanderthal
Living Space: the
organisation of living space and the use of landscapes in Neanderthal
society" (see
also my website www.palaeolithic.nl)
Apart
from archaeology, which
is my profession, I have varied interests in other topics, most notably
astronomy.
Several of these interests are
highlighted on this website. Amongst others, I am
an avid meteor observer,
active within the renowned Dutch Meteor
Society. I made several observational trips to various places
on this planet
(see map).
In the field of meteor astronomy, I am author or co-author to a number
of serious
scientific
publications (see my publications list). I
collect (or rather: collected) meteorites,
and regularly check Dutch meteorite fall and find reports for the Dutch
Meteor
Society. I also made a number of asteroid discoveries
in NEAT archive
data (see my asteroids
page) and one in the Spacewatch program. Since 2005 August 1, I operate
Cospar satellite tracking station #4353 (see my
SatTrackCam page). I also do various activities with my photo camera,
including panorama
photography.
On
this website:
On this website you will find some information about my archaeological activities, as well as many of my interests. Pick your choice from the extensive menu at left! You will find an educational page on handaxes, and an overview of the known Dutch meteorites in both English and Dutch (the Dutch version is more extensive and includes Belgian meteorites and the meteorites of the former Dutch East Indies as well).
Nice pictures including scenic views of the Gobi desert and Arizona are to be found in my Travel & Adventure Picture Gallery, while some attractive photographs of comet & meteors and other celestial phenomena such a satellites and Northern lights can be found in additional photo galleries. There is a slide show of my pictures of beautiful Leiden town, and a page with my panorama photographs. There is a link to my favorite restaurant, while another link brings you to the cool music of Bettie Serveert, to my movie colleague, Indiana Jones, and yet another one to my other hero, Biggles. I discuss some of my favourite novels in mijn boekenkast (Dutch only). I hope you'll enjoy browsing my pages. Please don't forget to sign my guestbook!
