Sabine Karg

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Sabine Karg (* 1961 ) is a German archaeobotanist .

Live and act

Sabine Karg studied prehistory at the University of Tübingen a . a. at Hansjürgen Müller-Beck . In 1994 she completed her doctorate in botany at the University of Basel with the thesis “Plant diversity in the Middle Ages. Reconstruction of a late medieval arable flora near Laufen (Switzerland) with the help of charred stocks of cultivated plants ”. Since then she has taught at the universities of Tübingen, Leiden and Copenhagen . From 1999 until a savings round in 2011, she worked at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. Since 2016 she has been researching Neolithic flax and flax cultivation in a DFG-funded project at the Free University of Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • Plant diversity in late medieval cornfields of northern Switzerland . In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 4, 1995, pp. 41-50
  • Vegetable diversity in the Middle Ages. Reconstruction of late medieval arable flora near Laufen (Switzerland) with the help of charred stocks of cultivated plants . Dissertationes Botanicae 262, Berlin, Stuttgart, 1996
  • Eaten once and digested - For the detection of food plants in latrine deposits . In: Historisches Museum Basel (Hrsg.) Fundgruben - Silent places exhausted. Basel, 1996, 69-74
  • The archaeobotanical find material. Seeds and fruits . In: J. Pfrommer, Laufen Rathausplatz. A row of wooden houses in a small medieval town: house building, material culture and everyday life, Berner Lehrmittel- und Medienverlag, Bern, 1999, pp. 261–266, pp. 322–323
  • with R. Steinhauser-Zimmermann, I. Bauer: Culinary time travel. A cookbook with recipes from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages . Communicating Culture. Brøndby Strand, 2012
  • with U. Hansen Lund, AM Walldén, J. Glastrup, H. Pedersen Ærenlund, FO Nielsen Sonne: Vegetal grave goods in a female burial on Bornholm (Denmark) from the Late Roman Iron Age period interpreted in a comparative European perspective . In: Danish Journal of Archeology 3, 2014, 52-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2014.994280
  • with E. Weber, Heilsam, kleidsam, miraculous: Plants in the everyday life of Stone Age people , science. Book Society, Darmstadt, 2019, ISBN 9783806238860

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Know-how in flax production - Specialized farmers of the early to late Neolithic (4300-2200 BC) in the circum-alpine area. An interdisciplinary study on the history of the spread and use of the cultivated plant flax (Linum usitatissimum L.). Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Karg, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961