Current Members of the IWGP Committee

As also stated elsewhere, the IWGP Committee is the IWGP’s only continuous institution. Its goal is to further develop archaeobotany, and to support the temporary committees (i.e., the Steering Committee and the Scientific Committee) with advice, whenever they seek it. During each conference, the IWGP Committee decides upon the next conference location.

Rotating Committee Members
(Early Career Scientists)

Sonja Filatova Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Faculteit der Letteren Groningen, The Netherlands

Michaela Ptaková Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Laboratoř archeobotaniky a paleoekologie (LAPE) České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Former Members of the IWGP Committee

We are most grateful to these researchers for founding, guiding, and shaping the IWGP over the decades:

Corrie C. Bakels Universiteit Leiden, Faculteit Archeologie Leiden, The Netherlands	Karl-Ernst Behre Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung Wilhelmshaven, Germany	Maria Hopf † (1914-2008) Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; later Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany Obituary	Stefanie Jacomet Universität Basel, Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie Basel, Switzerland	Glynis E. M. Jones University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology Sheffield, England, UK
Mordechai E. Kislev Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Life Sciences Ramat-Gan, Israel	Helmut Kroll Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Kiel, Germany	Klaus Oeggl Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Botanik Innsbruck, Austria	David Earle Robinson	Zdeněk Tempír Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic
Krystyna Wasylikowa Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera Kraków, Poland	Willem Van Zeist † (1924-2016) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut Groningen, The Netherlands Obituary

Founding Members

Karl-Ernst Behre, Maria Hopf, and Willem Van Zeist wrote and signed the “constitutional documents” of today’s IWGP during the first conference in 1968, and are thus considered the first Committee Members. Zdeněk Tempír initiated the first conference, and thus the IWGP.

Karl-Ernst Behre Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Maria Hopf † (1914-2008) Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; later Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany Obituary

Zdeněk Tempír Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic

Willem Van Zeist † (1924-2016) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut Groningen, The Netherlands Obituary