Expertise and Research Interests
Archaebotany of the Netherlands, Egypt and the Near East; Modeling the transition to farming; Taphonomy of the archaeobotanical archive; Ethno-archaeobotany (including the prodcution of seed atlases); Graeco-Roman trade
Selected publications
Cappers, R.T.J., R. Neef, K.-U. Heussner & H. Woldring, 2010. Manual of Palaeoboany (GIA (RUG)/DAI (Berlin)). Groningen, Barkhuis, 309 pp.
Cappers, R.T.J., R. Neef & R.M. Bekker, 2009.
Digital Atlas of Economic Plants
(book and website: www.plantatlas.eu) (Groningen Archaeological Studies 9). Groningen, Barkhuis/Groningen University Library. 3 volumes, 2035 pp.
Cappers, R.T.J. & D. Raemaekers, 2008.
Cereal cultivation at Swifterbant? About being a Neolithic wetland farmer in the western part of the North Europaean Plain. Current Anthropology 49, 385-402.
Cappers, R.T.J. (ed.), 2007. Fields of Change. Progress in African Archaeobotany. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of African Archaeobotany (Groningen Archaeological Studies 5). Groningen, Barkhuis/Groningen University Library.
Cappers, R.T.J., 2006. The reconstruction of agricultural practices in ancient
Egypt:
an ethnoarchaeobotanical
approach. Palaeohistoria 47/48, 429-446.
Cappers, R.T.J., 2006. Roman foodprints at Berenike. Archaeobotanical evidence of trade and subsistence in the
Eastern Desert of Egypt. Monograph 55. Cotsen
Institute
of
Archaeology,
UCLA.
Cappers, R.T.J., R.M. Bekker & J.E.A. Jans, 2006. Digital seed atlas of the
Netherlands
(book and website on
University Library Groningen) (
Groningen
Archaeological Studies 3).
Groningen,
Barkhuis/Groningen
University
Library. XXVI & 502 pp.
Cappers, R.T.J. & S. Bottema (eds), 2002. The dawn of farming in the
Near East.
Studies in Early Near Eastern
Production, Subsistence, and Environment 6 [1999].
Berlin,
ex oriente.
