These conferences focus mainly, but not exclusively, on the study of plant macrofossils in order to reconstruct past subsistence, trade, construction, ritual, and the environment.
[1] The idea of an international group focussed on human-plant interactions originated at the 7th International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences in 1966, by the researchers Maria Hopf, Klaus-Dieter Jäger, Maria Follieri, Emanuel Opravil, Zdeněk Tempír, Árpád Patay, and Jane Renfrew, in discussion with Fatih Khafizovich Bakhteev, Moisej Markovič Jakubziner, and Willem van Zeist.
[10] The IWGP is overseen a by an international committee of archaeobotanists, including Naomi Miller, Amy Bogaard, and Dorian Fuller.
[11] Major achievements are considered as Jürgen Schultze-Motel’s international literature indices, which was continued by Helmut Kroll, which is now the online database ArchBotLit.
A retrospective view on the occasion of 20 years of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany“, edited by Willem van Zeist, Krystyna Wasylikowa, and Karl-Ernst Behre, and published by A.