Ulrich Willerding (born 8 July 1932 in

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, Germany. He is also an instructor at a local high school. Willerding is one of the leading European palaeo-ethnobotanists.Frühe Nutzung pflanzlicher Ressourcen, ed. by Renate Rolle and Frank M. Andraschko (1999) He has specialized in

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but also done work on other times. One of his special interests is

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s. He has worked on bibliographies of European paleoethnobotany. Although a biologist by training, he has worked extensively with archaeologists.

Selected publications

*"Göttingen: II. Die Pflanzenreste aus der bandkeramischen Siedlung," NAFN II, 1965. *"Mittelalterliche Pflanzenreste von der Büraburg," in ''Burg – „Oppidum“ – Bischofssitz in karolingischer Zeit'' ed. by Norbert Wand, 1974. *''Die Paläoethnobotanik und ihre Stellung im System der Wissenschaften (Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft)'', 1978. *(Co-editor) ''Beiträge zur Paläo- Ethnobotanik von Europa. Contributions to the Palaeo- Ethnobotany of Europe'', 1978. *''Zur Geschichte der Unkräuter Mitteleuropas'', 1986. *"Landnutzung und Ernährung,“ in: Göttingen: Geschichte einer Universitätsstadt Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges / Dietrich Denecke,Helga-Maria Kühn (Hrsg.), 1987. *''Frühmittelalterliche Gärten (Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland)'', 1996. *"Zur Verwendung von Pflanzen im Hausbau des Mittelalters und während der Neuzeit,“ in: ''Terra & Praehistoria. Festschrift für K.-D. Jäger'', 1996. *''Umweltrekonstruktion (Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland)'', 1996. *"Die Landwirtschaft bei den Germanen und in den römischen Provinzen bis zur Völkerwanderungszeit: Haustierhaltung” and "Die Landwirtschaft im frühen Mittelalter (6.-10.Jh.): Garten, Obst und Weinbau” – ''Archäologische Fachliteratur (Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas ; 14)'', 2003. *''Die Pflanzenfunde von Starigard/Oldenburg'', 2004. ---- *''Frühe Nutzung pflanzlicher Ressourcen'', ed. by Renate Rolle and Frank M. Andraschko (1999) is a festschrift dedicated to Willerding.

References

External links

Online article by Willerding concerning early agricultural production from pre-Roman through Medieval times (in German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Willerding, Ulrich 1932 births Living people People from Querfurt People from the Province of Saxony Ethnobiologists 21st-century American botanists Ethnobotanists Archaeobotanists Academic staff of the University of Göttingen