Wiebke Kirleis
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Wiebke Kirleis (born 15 April 1970 in
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, Germany) is Professor of Environmental Archaeology and Archaeobotany at
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, Germany. She is co-director of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Scales of Transformation: Human-Environment Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies' (CRC1266, funded by the
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) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Roots' at Kiel University. As an
archaeobotanist Paleoethnobotany (also spelled palaeoethnobotany), or archaeobotany, is the study of past human-plant interactions through the recovery and analysis of ancient plant remains. Both terms are synonymous, though paleoethnobotany (from the Greek words ...
, she is interested in all kinds of plant-related human activities, be they subsistence strategies or food processing, and their socio-cultural implications, as well as the reconstruction of human-environment interactions in the past. Geographically, her research areas range from northern Europe to Indonesia.


Career

From 1990 to 1998 she studied biology at the
University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...
(botany, anthropology, environmental history/prehistory and early history). From 1998 to 2002 she was a research assistant at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research. There she wrote her dissertation 'Vegetationsgeschichtliche und archäobotanische Untersuchungen zur Landwirtschaft und Umwelt im Bereich der prehistorischen Siedlungen bei Rullstorf, Landkreis Lüneburg' (Vegetation-historical and archaeobotanical investigations on agriculture and environment in the area of the prehistoric settlements near Rullstorf, district of Lüneburg), which she submitted to Eberhard Grüger and Karl-Ernst Behre in Göttingen in 2002 and was awarded a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.). She then worked as a research assistant on various projects in Göttingen and elsewhere. In 2008, Wiebke Kirleis moved to the University of Kiel, where she worked as a junior professor for environmental archaeology at the Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes and the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology from 2008 to 2014. Since 2014 she has been Professor of Environmental Archaeology and Archaeobotany at the Institute of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Kiel. She is currently a board member of the Roots Cluster of Excellence and the Johanna Mestorf Academy and, since 2016, co-spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 at Kiel University. She was and is involved in many international projects, such as the
Pokekea Megalithic Site The Pokekea Megalithic Site is a Megalith, megalithic archaeological site in the Lore Lindu National Park in Indonesia. It is located in the Behoa (Besoa) Valley northwest of Bada Valley. The Behoa valley is notable for its preserved kalambas, meg ...
, Indonesia, research on settlements of the Cucuteni-Tripolje culture in Ukraine and Moldova, or the
Funnel Beaker Culture The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (, ; ; ), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe. It developed as a technological merger of local neolithic and mesolithic techno-complexes between the lower Elbe and middle V ...
in Denmark and northern Germany. She has also been involved in international research projects on the origin and distribution of
proso millet ''Panicum miliaceum'' is a grain crop with many common names, including proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet. Archaeobotany, Archaeobotanical evidence suggests millet was first ...
(''Panicum miliaceum'') in East Asia and Europe. She leads a research team in the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University investigating the diversity and importance of
rye Rye (''Secale cereale'') is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is grown principally in an area from Eastern and Northern Europe into Russia. It is much more tolerant of cold weather and poor soil than o ...
(''Secale cereale'' ssp. ''cereale'' L.) in medieval Europe. In 2019, she published a comprehensive work on botanical remains from Neolithic settlements in northern Central Europe.


Publications

* Wiebke Kirleis, Valério D. Pillar and Hermann Behling. 2011. Human–environment interactions in mountain rainforests: palaeo-botanical evidence from central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20, 165-179. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-010-0272-0. * Wiebke Kirleis and Stefanie Klooß. 2014. More than simply fallback food? Social context of plant use in the northern German Neolithic, in: Alexandre Chevalier, Elena Marinova, and Leonor Peña-Chocarro (eds.), Plants and people: choices and diversity through time. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 326-335. * Wiebke Kirleis and Elske Fischer. 2014. Neolithic cultivation of tetraploid free threshing wheat in Denmark and northern Germany: implications for crop diversity and societal dynamics of the Funnel Beaker Culture, in: Felix Bittmann et al. (eds.), Farming in the forest: ecology and economy of fire in prehistoric agriculture. Special issue. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23, Supplement 1, 81-96. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0440-8. * Wiebke Kirleis and Marta Dal Corso. 2016. Trypillian subsistence economy: animal and plant exploitation, in: Johannes Müller, Kurt Rassman, and Mykhailo Videiko (eds.), Trypillia-megasites and European prehistory 4100–3400 BCE. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology 2. London: Routledge, 195-205. * ''Atlas of Neolithic plant remains from northern central Europe'' (= ''Advances in Archaeobotany.'' 4). Barkhuis Publishing, Groningen 2019, ISBN 978-94-92444-91-2. * Kirleis, W., Dal Corso, M., Filipović, D. 2022. Millet and What Else? The Wider Context of the Adoption of Millet Cultivation in Europe. Scales of Transformation ''14.'' Leiden: Sidestone Press.


External links

* https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wiebke-Kirleis * https://www.allesbleibtanders.com/en/modules/rispenhirse/


References

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