Harry Berghuis
PhD candidate
- Name
- Drs. H.W.K. Berghuis
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- h.w.k.berghuis@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Harry Berghuis is a PhD candidate in the Studying Homo erectus Lifestyle and Location (SHeLL) Research Project.
Office days
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Research
I am a geologist looking at fluvial and coastal systems and with a special interest for vertebrate fossils. My current research focusses on the Pleistocene of eastern Java. What does the geology tell us about the emergence of Java and its landscape development under influence of volcanism, tectonism, sea-level fluctuations and climate change? How did this affect the ecosystem? The enduring presence of Homo erectus in eastern Java makes these questions of special relevance.
Curriculum vitae
1993: Msc Geology (VU-Amsterdam)
1994 - 1999: MH-Poly consultants and Engineers
2000 - 2010: Freelance geological consultant
2011 - 2021: Sealand Coastal Consultancy, general director
2018 - 2021: Researcher at Leiden University and Naturalis
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Archaeology
- FdA Archaeological Sciences
- Berghuis H.W.K. (22 January 2026), From the Solo to the Madura Strait: Quaternary geology, vertebrate palaeontology and hominin chronology of eastern Java and submerged Sundaland (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Kolfschoten M. van, Joordens J.C.A. & Veldkamp A.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Veldkamp A., Adhityatama S., Reimann T., Versendaal A., Kurniawan I., Pop E., Kolfschoten T. van & Joordens J.C.A. (2025), A late Middle Pleistocene lowstand valley of the Solo River on the Madura Strait seabed, geology and age of the first hominin locality of submerged Sundaland, Quaternary Environments and Humans 3(2): 100042.
- Berghuis H.W.K., van den Bergh G., Kolfschoten T., Wibowo U.P., Kurniawan I., Adhityatama S., Sutisna I., Verheijen I., Pop E., Veldkamp A. & Joordens J.C.A. (2025), First vertebrate faunal record from submerged Sundaland: the late Middle Pleistocene, hominin-bearing fauna of the Madura Strait, Quaternary Environments and Humans 3(2): 100047.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Kolfschoten T. van, Wibowo U.P., Kurniawan I., Adhityatama S., Sutisna I., Pop E., Veldkamp A. & Joordens J.C.A. (2025), The taphonomy of the Madura Strait fossil assemblage, a record of selective hunting and marrow processing by late Middle Pleistocene Sundaland hominins, Quaternary Environments and Humans 3(2): 100055.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Kaifu Y., Wibowo U.P., Kolfschoten T. van, Sutisna I., Noerwidi S., Adhityatama S., Bergh G. van den, Pop E., Suriyanto R.A., Veldkamp A., Joordens J.C.A. & Kurniawan I. (2025), The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland, Quaternary Environments and Humans 3(2 ): 100068.
- Pop E.A.L., Hilgen S., Adhityatama S., Berghuis H.W.K., Veldkamp T., Vonhof H., Sutisna I., Alink G.M.A., Noerwidi S., Roebroeks W. & Joordens J.C.A. (2023), Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations, Journal of Human Evolution 176: 103312.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Kolfschoten T. van, Adhityatama S., Troelstra S.R., Noerwidi S., Suriyanto R.A., Wibowo U.P., Pop E., Kurniawan I., Hilgen S.L., Veldkamp A. & Joordens J.C.A. (2023), Response to the comment by Huffman and Zaim, Quaternary Science Reviews 307: 108059.
- Hilgen S.L., Pop E., Adhityatama S., Veldkamp T.A., Berghuis H.W.K., Sutisna I., Yurnaldi D., Dupont-Nivet G., Reimann T., Nowaczyk N., Kuiper K.F., Krijgsman W., Vonhof H.B., Ekowati D.R., Alink G., Hafsari N.L.G.D.M., Drespriputra O., Verpoorte A., Bos R., Simanjuntak T., Prasetyo B. & Joordens J.C.A. (2023), Revised age and stratigraphy of the classic Homo erectus-bearing succession at Trinil (Java, Indonesia), Quaternary Science Reviews 301: 107908.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Kolfschoten T. van, Adhityatama S., Troelstra S.R., Noerwidi S., Suriyanto R.A., Wibowo U.P., Pop E., Kurniawan I., Hilgen S.L., Veldkamp A. & Joordens J.C.A. (2022), The eastern Kendeng Hills (Java, Indonesia) and the hominin-bearing beds of Mojokerto, a re-interpretation, Quaternary Science Reviews 295: 107692.
- Ruff C.B., Sylvester A.D., Rahmawati N.T., Suriyanto R.A., Storm P., Aubert M., Joannes-Boyau R., Berghuis H., Pop E., Batenburg K.J., Coban S.B., Kostenko A., Noerwidi S., Renema W., Adhityatama S. & Joordens J.C. (2022), Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia, Journal of Human Evolution 172: 103252.
- Berghuis. H.W.K., Veldkamp A., Adhityatama S., Hilgen S.L., Sutisna I., Barianto D.H., Pop E.A.L., Reimann T., Yurnaldi D., Ekowati D.R., Vonhof H.B., Kolfschoten M. van, Simanjuntak T., Schoorl J.M. & Joordens J.C.A. (2021), Hominin homelands of East Java: revised stratigraphy and landscape reconstructions for Plio-Pleistocene Trinil, Quaternary Science Reviews 260: 106912.
- Berghuis H.W.K., Troelstra S. & Zaim Y. (2019), Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the eastern Kendeng Zone (Java, Indonesia): the Marmoyo and Sumberingin Sections, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 528: 218–231.