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Gert van den Bergh

Research Interests

• Evolution of Proboscideans (elephants and their kin)
• Evolution of island mammals
• Quaternary environmental change and catastrophic events and their impact on terrestrial fauna evolution and dispersal of hominins
• Paleozoogeography of SE Asia
• Taphonomy/zooarchaeology

Representative Publications

Bergh, G.D. van den, I. Kurniawan, M.J. Morwood, C.J. Lentfer, Suyono, R. Setiawan & F. Aziz (in press). Environmental reconstruction of the Middle Pleistocene archaeological/palaeontological site Mata Menge, Flores, Indonesia. In: F. Aziz, M.J. Morwood & G.D. van den Bergh (Eds.), Pleistocene Geology, Palaeontology and Archaeology of the Soa Basin, Central Flores, Indonesia. Bandung, Geological Survey Institute Special Publication, 36: 59-94.

Bergh, G.D. van den, H.J.M. Meijer, Rokus Due Awe, M.J. Morwood, K. Szabo, L.W. van den Hoek Ostende, T. Sutikna, E.W. Saptomo, P.J. Piper, K.M. Dobney (in press, available online). The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95 kyr sequence from Flores, East Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution

Bergh, G.D. van den, Rokhus Due Awe, M.J. Morwood, T. Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo (2008). The youngest Stegodon remains in Southeast Asia from the Late Pleistocene archaeological site Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Quaternary International, 182, 16-48.

Bergh, G.D van den, W. Boer, M.A.S. Schaapveld, D.M. Duc & Tj.C.E. van Weering (2007). Recent sedimentation and sediment accumulation rates of the Ba Lat prodelta, Red River, Vietnam. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 29, 545-557.

Brumm, A., F. Aziz, G.D. van den Bergh, M.J. Morwood, M.W. Moore, I. Kurniawan, D.R. Hobbs & R. Fullager (2006). Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis. Nature, 441, 624-628.

Boer, W., G.D. van den Bergh, H. de Haas, H.C. de Stigter, R. Giles & Tj.C.E. van Weering (2006). Validation of accumulation rates in Teluk Banten (Indonesia) from commonly applied 210Pb models, using the 1883 Krakatau tephra as time marker. Marine Geology, 227, 263-277.

Morwood, M.J., R.P. Soejono, R.G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, C.S.M Turney, K.E. Westaway, W.J. Rink, J-x. Zhao, M.I. Bird, G.D. van den Bergh, Rokus Awe Due, D.R. Hobbs, L.K. Fifield & M.W. Moore (2004). Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia. Nature, 431, 1087-1091.

Van der Kaars, S. and G.D. van den Bergh (2004). Anthropogenic changes in the landscape of west Java (Indonesia) during historic times, inferred from a sediment pollen record from Teluk Banten. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19, 229-239.

Bergh, G.D. van den, W. Boer, H. de Haas, Tj.C.E. van Weering and R.van Wijhe (2003). Shallow marine tsunami deposits in Teluk Banten (NW Java, Indonesia), generated by the 1883 Krakatau eruption. Marine Geology, 197, 13-34.

Bergh, G.D. van den, J. de Vos, and P.Y. Sondaar (2001). The Late Quaternary palaeogeography of mammal evolution in the Indonesian Archipelago. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171, 385-408.

Bergh, G.D. van den (1999). The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications; a study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace’s Line. Scripta Geologica, 117, 1-419

Mol, D., J. de Vos, G.D. van den Bergh and P.Y. Sondaar (1996). The taxonomy and ancestry of fossil elephants of Crete; faunal turnover and a comparison with proboscidean faunas of Indonesian Islands. in: D. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers. Monographs in World Archaeology, 28, 81-98.

Bergh, G.D. van den, P.Y. Sondaar, J. de Vos and F. Aziz (1996). The Proboscideans of the Southeast Asian Islands. In: The Proboscidea: Trends in Evolution and Paleoecology (eds. J. Shoshani and P. Tassy) Oxford University Press, 240-248.

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Abbreviated CV

2008-present: ARC Research Associate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong

2004-2008: Research Associate, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands

2003: Guest Researcher, National Museum for Natural History NATURALIS, Leiden, the Netherlands

2003-2006: ARC Research Associate (25%), Astride Wallace Line I

1997-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands

1997: PhD in Geology (vertebrate palaeontology), University of Utrecht, Institute for Earth Sciences, The Netherlands

1995: Research Fellow, School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Japan

1990-1994: Research assistant at the Institute for Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1988: MSc in Geology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands