Norbert Benecke

Norbert Benecke (born March 22, 1954 in Osterburg (Altmark) ) is a German archaeozoologist .

Norbert Benecke passed his Abitur in 1972 and then did his military service with the NVA until 1974 . From 1974 to 1978 he studied biology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 1978 he became a qualified biologist and the following year he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Bennecke received his doctorate in 1984 in Berlin on the animal remains of the early medieval settlement Ralswiek on Rügen ( archaeozoological studies on the development of domestic animals in body size and growth form in the southern Baltic Sea region ( late Latène - late Middle Ages ) ). Reviewers were Konrad Senglaub , Joachim Herrmann and H.-H. Müller. In 1992 he completed his habilitation in Halle on archaeozoological studies on the development of domestic animal husbandry in Central and Northern Europe from the beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages . Since 1992 he has been a consultant for archeozoology at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin. In 2001 he was also appointed honorary professor at the Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory at Humboldt University. Here he holds lectures and seminars on topics of archeozoology and leads exercises for the determination of animal bones.

Benecke's research focus is on the use of the animal world by prehistoric humans in various Eurasian landscape zones from the Neolithic to the Iron Age , animal domestications and the environmental history of Europe in the Late Glacial and Holocene with a focus on fauna. Current research projects are the archaeozoological investigations of finds from excavations in Siberia (namely Tschitscha and Aržan ), in Kazakhstan ( Zeganka , Taldy Bulak and others), in Pakistan ( Sohr Damb / Nal), in Jordan ( Aqaba ), in Turkey ( Kırklareli ) ; in Bulgaria ( drama ), as well as the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna (Mainz) in Mainz . Benecke is a corresponding member of the DAI.

Fonts

• The development of domestic animal husbandry in the southern Baltic region / Norbert Benecke , Museum für Ur- u. Early history of Thuringia, Weimar 1986 (contributions to archeozoology, 5 / Weimar monographs on prehistory and early history, 18)
• Man and his pets. The history of a relationship that is thousands of years old , Theiss, Stuttgart 1994 ISBN 3-8062-1105-1

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 126.

Web links

• Literature by and about Norbert Benecke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Norbert Benecke