Neu (im) Land - erste Bäuer:innen in der Peripherie

Wiebke Kirleis is professor of environmental archaeology/archaeobotany at Kiel University, Germany. She is deputy director of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Scales of Transformation: Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies' (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Roots' at Kiel University.

Andrea Hahn-Weishaupt studied prehistoric archaeology and human anthropology in Freiburg i.Br. and Tübingen. Since 1997, she has been running a successful archaeological excavation company in tandem with her husband, and in the interim, her daughter joined them as well. The company specialises in an extensive spectrum of archaeological pursuits, encompassing historical cemeteries, medieval village and town centres, prehistoric sites, and tangible remnants of the Nazi terror regime. Since 1998, she has been leading large-scale field inspections in the Uckermark, Brandenburg, as part of a job creation measure. In 2010, Andrea Hahn-Weishaupt joined the Archäologische Gesellschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg as a board member.

Mara Weinelt studied Geology and Paleontology at the University of Tübingen, earned a PhD and her habilitation in Paleooceanography at Kiel University, and is a senior scientist at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology atKiel University since 2007. Her main research interest focuses on exploring the role of past climate change on Holocene socio-environments.

Susanne Jahns worked as a palynologist at the University of Göttingen, where she studied sites in Croatia and Greece as well as cores from the Atlantic Ocean off Africa. In 1995, she began her palynological research in the state of Brandenburg at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and has been continuing it since 2000 at the Brandenburg State Office for Heritage Management and the Archaeological Museum in Wünsdorf.