Jose Joordens
Guest special professor
- Name
- Dr. J.C.A. Joordens
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.c.a.joordens@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5757-1168
Office days
I am irregularly present at the Faculty. Please contact me by phone or e-mail: +31-623994055 or josephine_joordens@eva.mpg.de.
Research and contact
In my research I combine the disciplines of Comparative Biology, Geology and Archaeology to ultimately answer that big question: what made us human? Given my background, I am especially interested in the relevance of aquatic environments for human evolution.
For my current research activities, see my webpages at the MPI website and at the Naturalis website.
Curriculum vitae
Trained as a marine biologist, I first had a career as applied scientist and consultant in coastal ecology until I decided to go back to academia and study the evolution of hominins. I completed my PhD in Earth and Life Sciences (Free University Amsterdam) in 2011. I worked as researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University) from 2010 to 2017, next from 2017 to 2018 at the Free University Amsterdam, and from 2018 to 2023 at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. From 2019- 2024, I held the “Naturalis Dubois Chair in Hominin Paleoecology and Evolution” as special professor at Maastricht University. Currenly I am a guest special professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, guest researcher at Naturalis, and guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany).
Guest special professor
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- Human Origins
- 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., 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.
- Van der Lubbe H.J.L., Krause-Nehring J., Junginger A., Garcin Y, Joordens J.C.A, Davies G.R., Beck C., Feibel C.S., Johnson T.C. & Vonhof H.B. (2017), Gradual or abrupt? Changes in water source of Lake Turkana (Kenya) during the African Humid Period inferred from Sr isotope ratios, Quaternary Science Reviews 174: 1-12.
- Sier M.J., Langereis G.C., Dupont-Nivet G., Feibel C.S., Joordens J.C.A., Van der Lubbe H.J.L., Beck C.C., Olago D., Cohen A. & WTK Science team members (2017), The top of the Olduvai Subchron in a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the West Turkana core WTK13, hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP), Quaternary Geochronology 42: 117-129.
- Janssen R., Joordens J.C.A., Koutamanis D., Puspaningrum M., De Vos J., Van der Lubbe J., Reijmer J.J.G., Hampe O. & 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.
- 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, Nature : 228–231.
- Joordens J.C.A., Kuipers R.S., Wanink J.H. & Muskiet F.A.J. (2014), A fish is not a fish: patterns in fatty acid composition of aquatic food may have had implications for hominin evolution, Journal of Human Evolution : .
- Joordens J.C.A., Feibel C., Lubbe J. van der, Sier M.J., Dupont-Nivet G., Langereis C., Beck C., Cohen A. & Vonhof H. (2014), The ICDP HSPDP-Turkana project: towards integrated core and outcrop paleoclimate records. Aardwetenschappelijk Congres (NAC), Veldhoven. 8 April 2014 - 9 April 2014. [conference poster].
- Joordens J.C.A. (2014), De toepassing van magnetostratigrafie in het onderzoek naar de evolutie van de mens. (Utrecht). [lecture].
- Joordens J.C.A. (2014), Hoeveel mens was de oermens? Op zoek naar onze voorouders in Afrika en Azië. (Museum Jeugduniversiteit Venlo). [lecture].
- Joordens J.A.C. (1 February 2014), “Boren naar onze bron: hoe kun je de stamboom van de mens tekenen als onze verre voorouders onvindbaar zijn of onbereikbaar diep begraven liggen?”. De Telegraaf, Wetenschap.
- 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.
- Vonhof H.B., Joordens J.C.A., Noback M.L., Van der Lubbe H.J.L., Feibel C.S. & Kroon D. (2013), Environmental and climatic control on seasonal stable isotope variation of freshwater molluscan bivalves in the Turkana Basin (Kenya), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 383-384: 16-26.
- Kuipers R.S., Joordens J.C.A. & Muskiet F.A.J. (2012), A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition that holds promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases of civilisation, Nutrition Research Reviews 25: 96-129.
- Joordens J.C.A., Feibel C.S., Spoor F., Vonhof H.B., Lourens L.J., Schulp A.S. & Kroon D. (2012), A biogeographical model for hominin evolution in Africa between 5 and 2.5 Ma. ESHE Meeting, Bordeaux. 21 September 2012 - 22 December 2012. [conference poster].
- Cohen K.M., MacDonald K., Joordens J.C.A., Roebroeks W. & Gibbard P.L. (2012), The earliest occupation of north-west Europe: a coastal perspective, Quaternary International 271: 70-83.
- Joordens J.C.A., Vonhof H.B., Feibel C.S., Lourens L.J., Dupont-Nivet G., Van der Lubbe H.J.L., Sier M., Davies G.R.D. & Kroon D. (2011), An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin, Geophysical research abstracts 13: .
- Joordens J.C.A., Vonhof H.B., Feibel C.S., Lourens L.J., Dupont-Nivet G., Van der Lubbe H.J.L., Sier M., Davies G.R. & Kroon D. (2011), An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin, Earth and Planetary Science Letters : .
- Wanink J.H. & Joordens J.C.A. (2007), Dietary shifts in Brycinus sadleri (Pisces: Characidae) from southern Lake Victoria, Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 10: 392-397.