Mietje Germonpré

Mietje Germonpré is a palaeontologist and archaeozoologist at the Institute of Natural Sciences. She studied at the University of Ghent. Her doctoral thesis at the Free University of Brussels dealt with the taphonomy, osteometry and palaeoecology of the Late Pleistocene mammals of the Flemish Valley. Her current research focuses on human-animal interactions from hunting to domestication during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in northern Eurasia.

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Function

Palaeontologist and archaeozoologist

Research team: Quaternary Environments & Humans
Research theme: Past interactions between Humans and Nature

Dissemination activities

Germonpré, M., Bocherens, H., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Sablin, M.V., 2019. La relation de l’homme au loup pendant le Paléolithique. Contes & Légendes, 13 Le Loup, maître des bois et des peurs, 38-41.

Publication highlights

Mietje Germonpré, Patrik Galeta, Jean-Baptiste Fourvel, Jean-Yves Bigot, Laurent Bruxelles, Hubert Camus, Jessica Cohen, Emmanuel Desclaux, Kim Génuite, Thierry Roger, Robin Veyron, Évelyne Crégut-Bonnoure, 2025. The Canis lupus ssp. (Mammalia, Carnivora) of the Baume Traucade (Issirac, Gard, France): A complete skeleton of a “dog-like” individual from the post-LGM. Quaternary Science Reviews 356, 109288, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109288

Sablin, M., Reynolds, N., Iltsevich, K., Germonpré, M., 2023. The Epigravettian Site of Yudinovo, Russia: Mammoth Bone Structures as Ritualised Middens. Environmental Archaeology 30, 50–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2182977

Galeta, P., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Sablin, M., Germonpré, M., 2021. Morphological Evidence for Early Dog Domestication in the European Pleistocene: The Randomization Approach. The Anatomical Record. 304: 42-62.

Germonpré, M., Van den Broeck, M., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Sablin, M.V., Bocherens, H., 2021. Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic. Human Ecology 49, 677–689 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00234-z

Germonpré, M., Udrescu, M., Fiers, E., 2014. Possible evidence of mammoth hunting at the Neanderthal site of Spy (Belgium), Quaternary International 337, 28-42.