• 2018-2019: Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, Sheffield University (UK), gefördert von dem European Research Council. Projekttitel: Mobility and management of cattle in Iron Age and Roman Netherlands.
• Seit 2017: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Archäozoologie am Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin.
• 2015-2017: Archäozoologin, BCL Archaeological Support (www.bcl-support.nl).
• 2013-2015: Forschungsprojekt IPNA, Universität Basel, gefördert durch ein Stipendium von der Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Projekttitel: Sustaining the Empire: farming and food supply in two Roman frontier regions.
• 2012: Forschungsaufenthalt Fitch Laboratory of the British School, Athens.
• 2009-2012: Forschungsprojekt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, gefördert durch ein Stipendium von The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Projekttitel: Livestock for sale: the effect of a market economy on rural communities in the Roman frontier zone.
• 2007: Promotion an der Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam mit der Arbeit Animals in ritual and economy in a Roman frontier community. Excavations in Tiel-Passewaaij.
• 1999-2013: Archäozoologin, VUhbs (archäologische Firma in Amsterdam)

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• Tierhaltung in NW Europa in der Eisenzeit und römischen Zeit
• Die Entwicklung von Rindern vom Neolithikum bis zum Mittelalter
• Mensch-Tier Beziehungen
• Tiere in Ritualen
• Ernährung
• Stabile Isotopenanalyse an Tierzähne

Schriftenverzeichnis Dr. Maaike Groot (orcid.org/0000-0002-7034-4322)

Monographies

• M. Groot, 2016: Livestock for sale: animal husbandry in a Roman frontier zone. The case study of the civitas Batavorum, Amsterdam (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 24).
• M. Groot, D. Lentjes, J. Zeiler (eds), 2013: Barely surviving or more than enough? The environmental archaeology of subsistence, specialisation and surplus food production, Leiden.
• M. Groot, 2010: Handboek Zoöarcheologie, Amsterdam (Materiaal & Methoden 1).
• M. Groot, 2008: Animals in ritual and economy in a Roman frontier community. Excavations in Tiel-Passewaaij, Amsterdam (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 12).

Papers

• Groot, M./D. Schmidtová/R. Fernandes, 2024: An archaeozoological dataset for 3000 years of animal management in the Netherlands, Data in Brief 55, 110603.

• Groot, M./M. van Haasteren/L.I. Kooistra, 2024: Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the Roman Netherlands, Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.5.

• Groot, M., 2023: Animal bones, in K. Gebhard/W. Schier (eds), Die mittelneolithische Kreisgrabenanlage von Ippesheim, Kreis Neustadt/Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Rahden/Westf. (Berliner Archäologische Forschungen 22), 329-338.
• Groot, M., 2023: Cattle health in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, International Journal of Paleopathology 41, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.02.003.
• Groot, M./U. Albarella, 2022: Cattle husbandry in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands: chronological developments and regional differences in cattle frequencies, management, size and shape, Prähistorische Zeitschrift.
• Grau-Sologestoa, I./M. Groot/S. Deschler-Erb, 2022: Innovation and intensification: the use of cattle in the Roman Rhine region, Environmental Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2022.2090094.

• M. Groot, U. Albarella, J. Eger, J. Evans, 2021: Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis. PLoS ONE 16, Nr. 10, 2021: e0258234. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258234

• A. Verbrugge, M. Groot, K. Deforce, G. De Mulder, W. van der Meer, S. Reniere, B. Cherretté, M. Boudin, A. Ervynck, 2021: Cremated animal remains and shattered pottery. Rare ritual deposits from the Middle to Late Bronze Age at Aalst - Siesegemkouter (Belgium), Prähistorische Zeitschrift.

• M. Groot, 2021: Animals in funerary ritual in the Roman Netherlands, in S. Deschler-Erb, U. Albarella, S. Valenzuela Lamas, Gabriele Rasbach (eds.), Roman animals in ritual and funerary contexts. Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st–4th February 2018, Frankfurt am Main (Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 26), 61-78.

• M. Groot, D. Habermehl, L. Kooistra, F. Reigersman-van Lidth de Jeude, M. Schepers, 2021: Deel van een groot rijk: Boeren, burgers en militairen in de Romeinse tijd (19 voor Christus-450 na Christus). In: L. Kooistra (ed.), Verandering van spijs: Tienduizend jaar voedselbereiding en eetgewoonten, Utrecht, 98-125.

• M. Groot, J. Evans, U. Albarella, 2020: Mobility of cattle in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32, 102416.

• L.I. Kooistra, M. Groot, 2020: Supplying Food to Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum. In: M. Brüggler, J. Obladen-Kauder, H. van Enckevort (eds.), Town-country relations in the northern parts of Germania Inferior from an economic perspective, Heidelberg (Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Archaeology 14), 19-33.

• M. Groot, 2020: Farming for a growing population: developments in agriculture in the provinces of Germania. In D. Van Limbergen, S. Maréchal, W. De Clercq (eds.), The resilience of the Roman Empire. Regional Case Studies on the Relationship between Population and Food Resources, Oxford (BAR International Series 3000), 31-45.

• M. Groot, 2020: A chronological and regional analysis of cattle withers height in the Iron Age and Roman period in the Netherlands. In: J. Bazelmans, E. Beukers, O. Brinkkemper, I.M.M. van der Jagt, E. Rensink, B.I. Smit, M. Walrecht (eds.), Tot op het bot onderzocht. Essays ter ere van archeozoöloog Roel Lauwerier, Amersfoort (Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 70), 49-72.

• M. Groot, L. Kooistra, 2020: Brood en vlees. De rol van de agrarische samenleving in de limeszone bij de bevoorrading van militairen en burgers, Lampas 53 (2), 241-258.

• M. Groot, 2020: Animal bone / Voedsel en industrie in de Romeinse vicus Heerlen. Zoöarcheologisch onderzoek Heerlen-Thermenterrein. In: K. Jeneson, W.K. Vos (eds.), Roman bathing in Coriovallum. The thermae of Heerlen revisited, Amersfoort (Nederlandse Archeologische Rapporten 65), 148-150, appendix XIV.

• Jessica E. Thomas, Gary R. Carvalho, James Haile, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Michael D. Martin, Simon YW Ho, Arnór Þ Sigfússon, Vigfús A. Jósefsson, Morten Frederiksen, Jannie F, Linnebjerg, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Jonas Niemann, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, André ER Soares, Robert Lacy, Christina Barilaro, Juila Best, Dirk Brandis, Chiara Cavallo, Mikelo Elorza, Kimball L. Garrett, Maaike Groot, Friederike Johansson, Jan T. Lifjeld, Göran Nilson, Dale Serjeanston, Paul Sweet, Errol Fuller, Anne Karin Hufthammer, Morten Meldgaard, Jon Fjeldså, Beth Shapiro, Michael Hofreiter, John R. Stewart, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Michael Knapp, 2019: Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk, eLIFE 2019;8:e47509. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.47509

• C. Çakirlar, Y. van den Hurk, I. van der Jagt, Y. van Amerongen, J. Bakker, R. Breider, J. van Dijk, K. Esser, M. Groot, T. de Jong, L. Kootker, F. Steenhuisen, J. Zeiler, T. van Kolfschoten, W. Prummel and R. Lauwerier, 2019: Animals and People in the Netherlands’ Past: >50 Years of Archaeozoology in the Netherlands, Open Quaternary 5 (1), p.13. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/oq.61

• S. Deschler-Erb, M. Groot, 2019: Think global, act local: Regionalism and the supply of meat to the Roman army. In: M. Allen (ed.), The role of zooarchaeology in the study of the western Roman empire, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 107), 53-72.

• M. Groot, 2018: How to feed a Roman camp. In: S. Matesic, C. S. Sommer (eds.), Limes XXIII: Proceedings of the 23rd International Limes Congress Ingolstadt 2015, Mainz (Beiträge zum Welterbe Limes Sonderband 4), 971-977.

• M. Groot, 2018: Animals and animal husbandry. In: C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells, K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age, Oxford.

• J.P. Crielaard, X. Charalambidou, M. Chidiroglou, M. Groot, S. Kluiving, F. Songu, S. Troelstra, 2017: The Plakari Archaeological Project. Preliminary report on the sixth field season (2015), Pharos 23 (2), 67-90.

• M. Groot, 2017: Developments in animal husbandry and food supply in Roman Germania Inferior, European Journal of Archaeology.
• M. Groot, S. Deschler-Erb, 2017: Carnem et circenses - consumption of animals and their products in Roman urban and military sites in two regions in the northwestern provinces, Environmental Archaeology 22 (1), 96-112.
• M. Groot, 2016: Paleopathologie: gezondheid en welzijn van dieren in het verleden, Argos – Bulletin van het Veterinair Historisch Genootschap 54, 125-131.
• M. Groot, S. Deschler-Erb, 2015: Market strategies in the Roman provinces: Different animal husbandry systems explored by a comparative regional approach, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4, 447-460.
• L.I. Kooistra, M. Groot, 2015: The agricultural basis of the Hoogeloon villa and the wider region, in N. Roymans, T. Derks, H. Hiddink (eds), The Roman villa of Hoogeloon and the archaeology of a marginal region in the Lower Germanic frontier zone, Amsterdam (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 22), 141-162.
• M. Groot, 2014: Changing diets in the Low Countries, in W. Hupperetz, O.E. Kaper, F. Naerebout, M.J. Versluys (eds), Keys to Rome, Amsterdam, 83-86.
• M. Groot, 2014: Burned offerings and sacrificial meals in Geometric and Archaic Karystos. Faunal remains from Plakari (2011-2012), Pharos 20 (2), 447-460.
• M. van Haasteren, M. Groot, 2013: The biography of wells: a functional and ritual life history, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 4 (2).
• M. Groot, D. Lentjes, 2013: Studying subsistence and surplus production, in M. Groot, D. Lentjes, J. Zeiler (eds), Barely surviving or more than enough? The environmental archaeology of subsistence, specialisation and surplus food production, Leiden, 7-27.
• J. Van Dijk, M. Groot, 2013: The Late Iron Age-Roman transformation from subsistence to surplus production in animal husbandry in the Central and Western parts of the Netherlands, in M. Groot, D. Lentjes, J. Zeiler (eds), Barely surviving or more than enough? The environmental archaeology of subsistence, specialisation and surplus food production, Leiden, 175-200.
• M. Groot, 2013: Een Romeinse eikelmuis uit Hoogeloon, Cranium (November 2013), 8-12.
• M. Groot, 2012: Animal bones as a tool for investigating social and economic change: horse-breeding veterans in the civitas Batavorum, in I. Schrufer-Kolb (ed.), More than Just Numbers? The role of science in Roman archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 91), 71-92.
• M. Groot, 2012: Dealing with deposits in the Dutch River Area: animals in settlement rituals in the Roman period, in A. Pluskowski (ed.), The ritual killing and burial of animals: European perspectives, Oxford, 137-151.
• M. Groot, 2011: Household specialisation in horse breeding: the role of returning veterans in the Batavian river area, in R. Wiegels, G.A. Lehmann, G. Moosbauer (eds): Fines imperii - imperium sine fine? Römische Okkupations- und Grenzpolitik im frühen Prinzipat, Rahden/Westfahlen, 203-218.
• M. Groot, A. Ervynck, F. Pigière, 2010: Vagrant vultures: archaeological evidence for the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) in the Low Countries, in W. Prummel, J.T. Zeiler, D. Brinkhuizen (eds), Birds in Archaeology. Proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group in Groningen (23.8-27.8.2008), Groningen (Groningen Archaeological Studies 10), 241-253.
• M. Groot, L.I. Kooistra, 2009: Land use and the agrarian economy in the Roman Dutch River Area, Internet Archaeology 27 (http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/5/1.html).
• M. Groot, S. Heeren, L. Kooistra, W. Vos, 2009: Surplus production for the market? The agrarian economy in the non-villa landscapes of Germania Inferior, Journal of Roman Archaeology 22, 231-252.
• M. Groot, 2009: Searching for patterns among special animal deposits in the Dutch River Area during the Roman period, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1 (2).
• Vossen, I., M. Groot, 2009: Barley and Horses: Surplus and Demand in the civitas Batavorum, in M. Driessen, S. Heeren, J. Hendriks, F. Kemmers and R. Visser (eds), TRAC 2008. Proceedings of the 18th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference held at Amsterdam 4-6 April, 2008, Oxford, 89-104.
• M. Groot, 2008: Surplus production of animal products for the Roman army in a rural settlement in the Dutch River Area, in S. Stallibrass/R. Thomas (eds), Feeding the Roman Army: the Archaeology of Production and Supply in the North-West Roman provinces, Oxford, 83-98.
• M. Groot, 2008: Understanding past human-animal relationships through the analysis of fractures: a case study from a Roman site in the Netherlands, in Z. Miklikova, R. Thomas (eds), Current research in animal palaeopathology: Proceedings of the Second ICAZ Animal Palaeopathology Working Group Conference, Oxford (BAR International Series 1844), 40-50.
• M. Groot, 2008: Rituelen op het Romeinse platteland: speciale deposities uit Tiel-Passewaaij, Vitruvius 2 (1), 32-28.
• M. Groot, 2007: De rol van dieren in een Bataafse plattelandsnederzetting: dierlijk bot uit Tiel-Passewaaij, in N. Roymans, T. Derks, S. Heeren (eds), Opgravingen te Tiel-Passewaaij. Een Bataafse plattelandsgemeenschap in de wereld van het Romeinse rijk, Utrecht, 177-192.
• M. Groot, 2005: The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in the Netherlands during the Roman period, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15, 15-22.
• M. Groot, 2005: Palaeopathological evidence for draught cattle on a Roman site in the Netherlands, in J. Davies, M. Fabiš, I. Mainland, M. Richards, R. Thomas, Diet and health in past animal populations: current research and future directions, Oxford, 52-57.
• M. Groot, 2001: Animal paleopathology from a Roman period burial site and two settlements in the Netherlands, in L. Capasso, M. La Verghetta, Proceedings of the XIIIth European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Chieti 2000, Teramo, 115-118.

Data sets

https://pandoradata.earth/dataset/an-archaeozoological-dataset-for-the-netherlands