Books By Maaike Groot - Author

Dr. Maaike Groot (1973) studied provincial-Roman archaeology at VU University Amsterdam and completed her PhD on a large animal bone assemblage from the Roman site of Tiel-Passewaaij in 2007. She subsequently carried out a (Veni) post-doctoral project on the effect of the Roman occupation on animal husbandry in the central part of the Netherlands. She is currently working at IPNA, University of Basel as a Marie Curie Fellow. Her current research project investigates food production in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the Roman period. Her main interest is the use of faunal remains to answer archaeological questions on the economy, food consumption and the ritual use of animals. Dr. Daphne Lentjes (1980) studied Mediterranean archaeology at VU University Amsterdam and spent four years in Italy working as an archaeobotanist at the Laboratorio di Archeobotanica e Paleoecologia (LAP) of the Università del Salento, Lecce. She recently completed her PhD on long-term developments in landscapes and land use in sout