Michiel Kappers
In Terris Site Technics
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kappers
Michiel
18-08-1970
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Hillegomstraat 12-14
1058 LS
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31-20-6158940
michiel@in-terris.com
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M. Phil
Archaeology (automation)
01-09-1996
Leiden University, the Netherlands
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Education
After the propedeutics (first general introduction year) start of the doctorate specialization in
archaeology of Indian America with a focus on Caribbean archaeology. September 1993
switched to Pre- and Protohistory of North-Western Europe at the same institute at Leiden
University. This switch was made to be able to specialize on methodical and technical
archaeology in a better way. The focus however remained on the Caribbean region.
Field work experience during and after study period:
 1991 summer, 3 weeks, Excavation Geleen Janskamperveld the Netherlands, Linear
Band Ceramic culture. Several field technical experiences.
 1992 summer, 3 weeks, excavation terp Wijnaldum the Netherlands,
Merovingish/Carolingish settlement. Work as supervisor on several excavation units.
 1992 autumn, 8 weeks, excavation Santa Cruz, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, PreColumbian Indian settlement. Responsible for measurement system with
conventional equipment and digital mapping.
 1993 summer, 12 weeks, excavation Hope Estate, Sint Maarten, Netherlands
Antilles, Pre-Columbian Indian settlement. Responsible for measurement system with
conventional equipment and digital mapping.
 1993 summer, 3 weeks, excavation terp Wijnaldum the Netherlands,
Merovingish/Carolingish settlement. Work as supervisor on several excavation units.
 1994 early summer, 5 weeks, several excavations Trois Riviere region Guadeloupe
French Antilles, Pre-Columbian Indian petroglyph locations. Responsible for
measurement system with conventional equipment and digital mapping.
 1994 late summer, 4 weeks, excavation Oss Mettegeupel the Netherlands, Bronze
age settlement. Responsible for measurement system with modern digital equipment
and digital mapping.
 1995 summer, 10 weeks, excavation Anse a la Gourde Guadeloupe French Antilles.
Pre-Columbian Indian settlement. Responsible for measurement system with modern
digital equipment and digital mapping.
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1995 winter, 2 weeks, excavation Morel Guadeloupe French Antilles. Pre-Columbian
Indian settlement. Responsible for measurement system with modern digital
equipment and digital mapping.
1996 summer, 4 weeks, several excavations at Anse a la Gourde, Matouba & Anse
Bertrand on Guadeloupe French Antilles. Pre-Columbian Indian settlement.
Responsible for measurement system with modern digital equipment and digital
mapping.
1996 summer, 3 weeks, survey and excavation Petite Rieviere La Desirade
Guadeloupe French Antilles. Pre-Columbian Indian settlement. Responsible for
measurement system with modern digital equipment and digital mapping.
1999 summer, 10 weeks, survey and test excavations complete island of la Desirade
Guadeloupe French Antilles. Pre-Columbian Indian settlements. Responsible for
measurement system with modern digital equipment and digital mapping.
Thesis project: The Archaeological Utility of The Vector GIS PC Arc/Info And Arcview. A
case study on the pre-Columbian site of Anse a la Gourde on Grande-Terre Guadeloupe
F.W.I., Leiden University 1996
Relevant knowledge in Automation for Archaeological projects:
During study period by means of self-study, thesis project and participation on several
archaeological campaigns in the Netherlands and the Caribbean region (see above):
standard base knowledge:
windows 3.1/95/98/NT4, word, wp, excel
databases:
foxpro, access, dbase
GIS (like) & grafical applications:
Autocad 12/14/2000
Mapinfo professional 9.5
Surfer 6.04/7.0
Arcview (ESRI)
(PC) Arc/Info (ESRI)
Internet:
Netscape
MS internet explorer
FTP
Pegasus mail
TCP/IP
Programming:
SQL, MapBasic, Visual basic, Map-X
Measurement equipment:
Infrared theodolite / Total station and
software (SDR)
GPS equipment and software (SKI)
Work Experience
Directly after study 2 weeks work at Cartan cartography (Houten, the netherlands) where road
maps are produced with met Arc/Info.
After this started as GIS specialist at the ROB (Dutch Archaeological State Heritage) for the
project ‘A27’ (meso-neolithic settlement excavation the Netherlands). Responsible for the
production of digital cartographical material and the link between de excavation data
(relational database) and (geo)graphical data and the analysis with it. After 9 months end of
work because of end of project.
After this started the company AARAD with an archaeology colleagues met at the A27
project. Since then been active for 4 years with this company specialized on computer
applications and digital data and mapping work for Archaeological and Historical projects.
Clients and projects during the AARAD period were:
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NS Railinfrabeheer (Dutch National Railroad company). Project ‘Betuwe Route’. A
major railroad project crossing the complete country from West (Rotterdam harbor) to
East (Germany) where 40 smaller and larger archaeological excavations took place.
AARAD was hired to do data controlling work for several of these excavations.
ROB (Dutch Archaeological State Heritage) hired AARAD for several projects.
Amongst others for building an application for data storage and data converting.
Archol BV. Leiden the Netherlands hired AARAD during a period of 4 years to
arrange organize setup and maintain the complete automation for two of the major
multi million dollar ‘Betuwe Route’ project excavations at Hardinxveld Giessendam
the Netherlands.
City of Arnhem the Netherlands, hired AARAD to do a Pilot study and examination on
the possibilities of the digitizing of (graphical) data of a major city enlargment
archaeological pre excavation.
City of Venlo the Netherlands, hired AARAD to make a digital version of the 1867
fortified city, to plot over the modern situation.
City of Vlaardingen the Netherlands, hired AARAD to make a digital version of the
1769 fortified city and surrounding area, to plot over the modern situation.
Ministere de la Culture Guadeloupe French Antilles, hired AARAD to do diverse
digital mapping (2D & 3D) and data analysis work on several projects.
The company SOB Research the Netherlands, hired AARAD to build an application to
store retrieve and present in a database and graphical way coring data.
As of the end of january 2003 AARAD continued as a one man firm IN TERRIS Site Technics.
Part of the QLC Group. For more (visual) information on this, see the website: http://www.interris.com. Clients and projects during the AARAD period were:
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The Rotterdam archaeological department BOOR has hired IN TERRIS to take care
of all the digital data collection controlling and correction on a small archaeological
project within the large infrastructural project of the high speed train track from
Amsterdam to Paris. Project started december 2002 up to now.
The commercial company VESTIGIA, dealing with directing mainly the larger
archaeological projects in the Netherlands, has hired IN TERRIS for 2 days a week to
make digital data maps and develop new technical concept and inovations. Project
started june 2003 up to the end of 2003.
The commercial company ARCHOL, connected to the Leiden Universuty the
Netherlands, has hired IN TERRIS for 3 days a week to take care of all the digital
data collection controlling and correction on a large scale neolothic archaeological
project within the infrastructural project of the water cleaning installation of the The
Hague region The Netherlands. Project started june 2003 up to the end of 2003.
IN TERRIS is involved in the international Carriacou survey and excavation project
that started march 2003 and is planned to run for the next few years, as well as short
term projects on Jamaica and Trinidad.
In 2008 In Terris and the QLC foundation merged into a new ltd, QLC BV. A growing two man
company focusing on the development of the Archaeological Information System (A.I.S.)
ArchaeoLINK. This development started around 2003. The system has evolved into a major
data tool within the Dutch archaeology. Main clients using the system are the Archaeological
departments of the following cities: Amsterdam (subway project Noord-Zuidlijn), Breda,
Leiden, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Tilburg as well as the province of Zeeland and several national
archaeological contract firms. For more information on the ArchaeoLINK system see the
website www.in-terris.com (in Dutch only so far). The A.I.S. ArchaeoLINK has also been used
at the Grand Bay and Sabazan projects on Carriacou, Grenada West Indies during the years
of fieldwork 2004 till today.
Scholarly Presentations
Annual Dutch National Archaeology Conference, Reuvensdagen:
Attended the 18th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology held on Grenada from
11-17 July 1999. And presented posters, brochures and digital demonstrations on
archaeological automation focused on the Caribbean region.
Attended the 19th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology to held on Aruba from
22-30 July 2001 where a paper on database structures was presented.
Attended the 20th International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology held in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic from 29 june – 6 July 2003. There a paper was presented on the March
2003 survey project on Carriacou with a 3D animated movie as visual support to the paper.
Attended the 21st International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology held in Port of Spain,
Trinidad & Tobago in 2005. Several papers where presented on different Caribbean projects.
Language Competencies
Dutch, English, German and limited French.
Other interests
- Architectural history / historical Dutch (inner)cities
- Traveling, Visited countries: most European countries, East Germany before, during and
after the fall of the ‘Wall’, Israel/Sinai, Rwanda/Zaire(Congo), USA, Canada, Ethiopia and the
Caribbean Islands: Aruba, Curacao, Grenada, Carriacou, Guadeloupe, La Desirade, Marie
Galante, Jamaica, Anguilla, Saba, St.Eustatius, St.Martin, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and
Tobago, St.Kitts and Nevis, Bequia, Mustique, Union-island, Puerto Rico.
- Science Fiction films and series
- Swimming