VELDWEZELT-HEZERWATER

THE NEANDERTHAL SITES AT VELDWEZELT-HEZERWATER

The Veldwezelt-Hezerwater sites (Lanaken, Limburg, Belgium - MAP) are located in the western part of the N.V. Vandersanden brickyard quarry, which exploited the loess deposits of the Hezerwater Valley. Scientific research of the quarry started in 1995 and is still on-going. The 2003 Campaign of Excavation was the sixth and last major excavation campaign that was organised at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater.
The excavation campaigns were directed by Leuven University archaeologist Dr. Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (Laboratory of Prehistory - Dir. Prof. Dr. Pierre M. Vermeersch), in close collaboration with the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren, the Institute for the Archaeological Heritage (IAP) of the Flemish Community, the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (FWO), the Province of Limburg, Belgium, the Province of Limburg, The Netherlands, the Community of Lanaken, the Community of Riemst and the City of Maastricht.
The excavation teams were made up from an international party of excavators. More than 200 students from Leuven University (B), from Gent University (B), from Amsterdam University (NL), from Leiden University (NL), from Groningen University (NL), from Düsseldorf University (D), from Lethbridge University (Canada), from Pittsburg University (USA), from York University (UK), from University College London (UK) and from Cambridge University (UK) joined the project over the years.