Stefanie Jacomet (born 1952) is professor of

archaeobotany 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 ...

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. Her research focuses on investigating wetland sites in

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and developing archaeobotanical methodologies.

Biography

Jacomet was born in 1952. She studied

botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

at Basel, receiving a PhD in 1979 on the subject of plant remains from

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

lake shore settlements in Zurich. During the 1980s Jacomet received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research. Jacomet was a member of the scientific supervisory board of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research from 1996 to 2009. In 1986 Jacomet was appointed lecturer for botany and archaeobotany at Basel University. Jacomet has edited several special issues of ''Vegetation History and Archaeobotany''. She is a member of the

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, and previously associate editor of ''Vegetation History and Archaeobotany''. Jacomet is a collaborator on the ongoing ERC funded PLANTCULT Project.

Selected publications

* Jacomet, Stefanie & Kreuz, Angela. 1999. ''Archäobotanik. Aufgaben, Methoden und Ergebnisse vegetations- und agrargeschichtlicher Forschung''. Ulmer, Stuttgart. 368 pages. * Jacomet, Stefanie; Kucan, Dusanka; Ritter, Axel; Suter, Georg; Hagendorn, Andrea (2002) Punica granatum (pomegranates) from early Roman contexts in Vindonissa (Switzerland). ''Vegetation History and Archaeobotany'' 11, 1–2, 79–92. *Bakels, C. and Jacomet, S. 2003. Access to luxury foods in Central Europe during the Roman period: the archaeobotanical evidence. ''

World Archaeology ''World Archaeology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of archaeology. It was established in 1969 and originally published triannually by Routledge & Kegan Paul. In 2004 it changed to a quarterly publication schedule while ...

''. *Jacomet, S. 2006. Plant economy of the northern Alpine lake dwellings—3500–2400 cal. BC. ''

Environmental Archaeology Environmental archaeology is a sub-field of archaeology which emerged in 1970s and is the science of reconstructing the relationships between past societies and the environments they lived in. The field represents an archaeological-palaeoecologica ...

''. *Jacomet, S. 2006. ''Identification of cereal remains from archaeological sites.'' Basel University. *Jacomet, S. 2007. Neolithic plant economies in the northern Alpine Foreland from 5500-3500 cal BC. In ''The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe,'' edited by S. Colledge and J. Connolly. * Jacomet, Stefanie. 2009. Plant economy and village life in Neolithic lake dwellings at the time of the Alpine Iceman. ''Vegetation History and Archaeobotany'' 18/1, 47–59. * Jacomet, S., Ebersbach, R., Akeret, Ö., Antolín, F., Baum, T., Bogaard, A., Brombacher, C., Bleicher, N. K., Heitz-Weniger, A., Hüster-Plogmann, H., Gross, E., Kühn, M., Rentzel, P., Steiner, B. L., Wick, L., Schibler, J. M. 2016. On-site data cast doubts on the hypothesis of shifting cultivation in the Late Neolithic (ca. 4300-2400 cal. BC). Landscape management as an alternative paradigm. ''

The Holocene ''The Holocene'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in the field of environmental studies, in particular environmental change over the last c. 11,500 years, particularly the interface between the long Quaternary record ...

''. DOI: 10.1177/0959683616645941.

Biography

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