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Wiebke Kirleis

Wiebke Kirleis (born 15 April 1970 in Einbeck, Germany) is Professor of Environmental Archaeology and Archaeobotany at Kiel University, 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 German Research Foundation) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Roots' at Kiel University.

As an archaeobotanist, 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. Provided by Wikipedia