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Maria Hopf
Maria Hopf (13 September 1913 – 24 August 2008) was a pioneering archaeobotanist, based at the RGZM, Mainz. Career Hopf studied botany from 1941–44, receiving her doctorate in 1947 on the subject of soil microbes. She then worked in phytopathology and plant physiology. From 1952–56 she studied glume wheat grain and glume anatomy at the ''Max Planck institute for Zuchtungsforschung'' in Berli-Dahlem. Hopf was introduced to the study of the history of cultivated plants by Elisabeth Schiemann. She then moved to the '' Romisch Germanisches Zentral Museum'' in Main, working first as a scientific assistant, before being appointed as the head of the newly founded division of archaeobotany in 1961. The archaeobotanist Gordon Hillman studied archaeobotany for a year in Mainz with Hopf. In 1968 Hopf was one of the founders of the IWGP along with Maria Follieri, and Jane Renfrew. During her career, Hopf received scholarships to study at the Israel Museum and the Hebrew University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleoethnobotany
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 ''palaios'' αλαιόςmeaning ancient, ''ethnos'' θνοςmeaning race or ethnicity, and ''votano'' ότανοmeaning plants) is generally used in North America and acknowledges the contribution that ethnographic studies have made towards our current understanding of ancient plant exploitation practices, while the term archaeobotany (from the Greek words ''archaios'' ρχαίοςmeaning ancient and ''votano'') is preferred in Europe and emphasizes the discipline's role within archaeology. As a field of study, paleoethnobotany is a subfield of environmental archaeology. It involves the investigation of both ancient environments and human activities related to those environments, as well as an understanding of how the two co-evolv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
The Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology, is headquartered in Mainz. It is supported by the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany and its States of Germany, states and is a member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, Leibniz Association of German research institutions. The institution studies the Old World and its contact zones from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. It consists of several divisions, and in addition maintains a permanent collection and through this and its numerous publications and conferences, disseminates the findings of recent research to the public. History The Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum was founded in 1852 by Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder, after the decision was taken at the 16–19 August ''Versammlung deutscher Geschichts- und Alterthumsforscher'' (Assembly of German Researchers in History and Classical Studies) in Dresden that a "central museum for Germanic and Roman artifacts" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Schiemann
Elisabeth Schiemann (; 15 August 1881 – 3 January 1972) was a German geneticist, crop researcher and resistance fighter in the Third Reich. Background and education Elisabeth Schiemann was born in Viljandi, Estonia, at the time part of the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. Her father was the historian ; from 1887 she lived in Berlin. She was part of the first generation of women in Germany who were permitted to study and pursue independent careers as academics, although initially in a limited capacity. She attended a seminar for teachers and stayed on in Paris for several years to study language. Subsequently, she worked for a few years as a teacher in a girls' school. From 1908 she studied at the University of Berlin and earned her doctorate there in 1912 with a thesis on mutations in ''Aspergillus niger''; her supervisor was Erwin Baur. Botany Academic career From 1914 to 1931 she was senior assistant at the Institute for Genetics at the Agricultural Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz)
Romano-Germanic may refer to: *Romano-Germanic culture of ancient Germanic peoples subject to the Roman Empire *Romano-Germanic law, a family of legal systems *Romano-Germanic Empire, more commonly called the Holy Roman Empire *Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne, Germany *Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz), Germany *Pontificale Romano-Germanicum ("Romano-Germanic pontifical"), a set of Latin documents of Roman Catholic liturgical practice *Romano-Germanic languages, a language group of the Indo-European language family that consists of two subgroups: the Romance languages and the Germanic languages. Romano-German may refer to: *Romano-German emperor, a term used by some historians for any emperor of the Holy Roman Empire *"Romano-German", N.Y. Danilevsky's term for the opposite counterpart of Slavic culture in Europe See also *Germanic Wars This is a chronology of warfare between the Romans and various Germanic peoples between 113 BC and 476. The nature of these wars varie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Hillman
Gordon Hillman (20 July 1943 – 1 July 2018) was a British archaeobotanist and academic at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been described as "a pivotal figure in the development of archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, hothrough his research, publications and teaching had a major influence on the field worldwide." Early life and education Hillman was born in Hailsham, East Sussex to Joyce (née Connett) and Albert Hillman on 20 July 1943. He was interested in plants from an early age; his father owned Knights, a local plant nursery. After leaving school, he worked as a field studies assistant at Alston Moor, Cumbria, and then at the Natural History Museum in London from 1960 to 1965. After studying agricultural botany at Reading University, in 1969 he went to Mainz in Germany to study archaeobotany with Maria Hopf. Fieldwork Hillman's research was underpinned by long periods of botanical and archaeological fieldwork. His firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Work Group For Palaeoethnobotany
The International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP) is an informal, international collective of archaeobotanists, with the main goal of establishing and maintaining international communication and collaboration by a series of conferences. 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. Origins 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. The first meeting in 1968 consisted of 12 people and took place at Kačina, near Prague. The meeting was termed the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Follieri
Maria Follieri (1932-2012) was a pioneering Italian archaeobotanist and held the Chair of Palaeobotany at La Sapienza. Early life Follieri was born in Rome in 1932. She studied Natural Sciences at the University La Sapienza, graduating in 1954. Career Early work included studies of fossil leaves from a site near Rome. She lectured at La Sapienza in palaeobotany from 1965 onwards, being appointed Associate Professor in 1980. In 1986, she was promoted to professor of the first level of Botany at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, before being appointed to the Chair of Palaeobotany in 1991. Follieri was one of the co-founders of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany in 1966, alongside Maria Hopf and Jane Renfrew. Her research spanned multiple themes, include the study of palaeoeclimate, palaeoethnobotany, and palaeovegetation, and chronologically, from the Quaternary period to the Classical world. She studied the archaeobotanical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Renfrew
Jane Renfrew, Lady Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is a British archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist noted for her studies on the use of plants in prehistory, the origin and development of agriculture, food and wine in antiquity, and the origin of the vine and wine in the Mediterranean. Biography Jane Renfrew was born to the Venerable Walter Frederick Ewbank. Since a young age she has shown an interest in the past, having participated in her first archaeological excavation when she was just 12 years old. As an undergraduate at New Hall College, Cambridge, she published her first book entitled "Antiquary on Horseback" (1963), with her maiden name. The volume resulted from transcribing and editing manuscripts left by Thomas Machell, rector of Kirkby Thore, Cumbria. During this period she also gained an interest in botany, and consequently paleoethnobotany. At Cambridge she met Colin Renfrew, with whom she married and had 3 children (Helena Renfrew-Knight, Alban Renfrew, Magnus Renfrew). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Kenyon
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. She was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1962 to 1973 and studied herself at Somerville College, Oxford . Biography Kathleen Kenyon was born in London, England, in 1906. She was the eldest daughter of Sir Frederic Kenyon, biblical scholar and later director of the British Museum . Her grandfather was lawyer and Fellow of All Souls College, John Robert Kenyon, and her great-great-grandfather was the politician and lawyer Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon. She grew up in Bloomsbury, London, in a house attached to the British Museum, with her mother, Amy Kenyon, and sister Nora Kenyon . Known for being hard-headed and stubborn, Kathleen grew up as a tomboy, fishing, cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Society For Plant Sciences
The German Society for Plant Sciences (also known as German Botanical Society, ''Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft'', DBG) is a non-profit network for plant sciences and botany in the German-speaking area. It was founded 1882 at Eisenach, Germany. In July 2020 it comprises more than 900 individual members and persons working or interested in plant science. The society supports young scientists and unites all generations. Tasks and goals DBG represents plant scientists, promotes plant sciences and scientific botany nationally and internationally. It integrates all plant science disciplines, like plant ecology, plant biochemistry, plant genetics, evolution, plant physiology, morphology and taxonomy and is a non-profit organization. Activities Main activities comprise editing scientific articles especially in its scientific journal ''Plant Biology''. This journal is successor of the ''Botanica Acta'' (1988 ̶ 1998) and ''Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft'' (1882 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
