Dr. Barbara Eichhorn
Research fellow

Campus Westend, Poelzig-Building
Room Q4, 6.412

Tel.: 069 798-32089
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Address:
Goethe University
Institute of Archaeological Sciences
Grüneburgplatz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Research interests and methods

Research projects (participation)

Academic career

Selected publications

Research interests

African archaeobotany and vegetation history:

  • Holocene vegetation history
  • Human and climatic influence on woody vegetation

Methods:

  • phytoliths
  • archaeological charcoal

Regional specialization on West- and Southwest Africa. Field work in Burkina Faso, Mali, Namibia.

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Research projects (participation)
  • Archéologie du Paysage au Pays Dogon/Mali (APPD)
  • Vegetation History of Ounjougou/Mali
  • Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa
  • Special research project 389: Arid Climate and Adaptation in Africa
Academic career

since 2008
Research fellow at DFG/ANR-project: Archéologie du Paysage au Pays Dogon

2005-2008
Research fellow at DFG-project: Vegetation History of Ounjougou/Mali

2003-2005
Research fellow at FOR 510: Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa

2002
PhD (Dr), University Cologne, subject: Anthracological analyses to reconstruct the vegetation history of the Kaokoland, Nordwest-Namibia“)

1995-2002
Research assistant at special research project 389 „ACACIA“, University Cologne

1989-1995
Study of biology at Goethe University Frankfurt (diploma: „Segetal vegetation in the Tiébélé region, Burkina Faso.“)

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Selected publications

Eichhorn, B. (2002): Anthrakologische Untersuchungen zur Vegetationsgeschichte des Kaokolandes, Nordwest-Namibia. Doktorarbeit, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln. URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-11784
http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2004/1178/

Eichhorn, B., K. Neumann, A. Garnier (2010): Seed phytoliths in West African Commelinaceae and their potential for palaeoecological studies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298 (3-4): 300-310.

Complete publication list

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