Dr. Stefanie Kahlheber
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Research interests
African archaeobotany and vegetation history:
- History of African crops and the development of agriculture
- Prehistoric and current plant use
Methods:
- fruit and seed remain analysis
Regional specialization on West- and Central Africa. Field work in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria
Research projects (participation)
- Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture (2010-2011)
- Human impact in coastal West Central Africa from the Iron Age to colonial times – reflected in the charcoal of Dibamba 1 (2011)
- Human populations and paleoclimatic evolution in West Africa (2010, 2011)
- Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa (2005-2009)
- Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna (1997-2002)
Academic career
2010-2011
Research fellow at long term research project: Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture; short term participation in further projects
2003-2009
Research fellow at FOR 510: Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa
2003
PhD (Dr), Goethe University Frankfurt. Subject: Pearl millet and baobab – archaeobotanical investigations in the North of Burkina Faso.
1995-2002
Research assistant at special research project 268: Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna
1989-1995
Study of botany, zoology and physical geography at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Selected publications
Kahlheber, S., K. Bostoen & K. Neumann (2009): Early plant cultivation in the Central African rain forest: first millennium BC pearl millet from South Cameroon. Journal of African Archaeology. Journal of African Archaeology 7 (2): 253-272.
Kahlheber, S., A. Höhn & N. Rupp (2009): Archaeobotanical studies at Nok sites: an interim report. Nyame Akuma 71: 2-17.
Kahlheber, S. & K. Neumann (2007): The development of plant cultivation in semi-arid west Africa. In: Denham, T. P., J. Iriarte & L. Vrydaghs (eds.): Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. One World Archaeology 51, Walnut Creek (Left Coast Press): 320-346.
