Gerrit Dusseldorp

Gerrit Dusseldorp is an expert on the behaviour of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers both in Northwest Europe and South Africa. He currently directs the NWO-funded project "Finding resolution for the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in South Africa". He completed a PhD at Leiden University (2009) on Neanderthal subsistence economies. He also studied the ecological relationships between Neanderthals and other Ice Age carnivores such as Cave hyenas. After completing his PhD he pursued his post-doctoral research in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand (2009 – 2012) and subsequently the University of Johannesburg (2013 – 2016).