Dr. Maaike Groot

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.