Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) is a Belgian archaeologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period. Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic – lit. ...

He studied archaeology at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Catholic University may mean: Australian Catholic University The Catholic University of America Catholic University of Angola Catholic University of Brussels Catholic University of Daegu Catholic University of Ireland Catholic University of Korea Catholic University of Leuven Catholic University of Lublin Catholic University of Portugal Catholic University of Puerto Rico Catholic... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province Flemish Brabant Arrondissement Leuven Coordinates , , Area 56. ...

He has excavated widely on prehistoric Belgian and Egyptian sites including Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Belgium and Sodmein Cave, Egypt. // Context The successive archaeological excavation campaigns at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Belgium provide important remains of at least five separate Middle Palaeolithic valley settlements. ...

Selected Bibliography

• Bringmans, P.M.M.A., Vermeersch, P.M., Gullentops, F., Groenendijk, A.J., Meijs, E.P.M., de Warrimont, J.-P. & Cordy, J.-M. 2003. Preliminary Excavation Report on the Middle Palaeolithic Valley Settlements at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater (prov. of Limburg). Archeologie in Vlaanderen - Archaeology in Flanders 1999/2000 VII: 9-30.
• Bringmans, P.M.M.A., Vermeersch, P.M., Groenendijk, A.J., Meijs, E.P.M., de Warrimont, J.-P. & Gullentops, F. 2004. The Late Saalian Middle Palaeolithic "Lower-Sites" at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater (Limburg - Belgium). In: Le Secrétariat du Congrès (eds), Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium. September 2-8, 2001. Section 5: The Middle Palaeolithic. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 1239: 187-195.

See also

• Veldwezelt-Hezerwater
• Archaeology
• Stone age