Stefanie Jacomet

Jacomet was born in 1952.[1] She studied botany at Basel, receiving a PhD in 1979 on the subject of plant remains from Neolithic lake shore settlements in Zurich.[1]

During the 1980s Jacomet received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research. Jacomet was a member of the scientific supervisory board of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research from 1996 to 2009.[1] In 1986 Jacomet was appointed lecturer for botany and archaeobotany at Basel University.[1]

Jacomet has edited several special issues of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. She is a member of the German Archaeological Institute, and previously associate editor of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Jacomet is a collaborator on the ongoing ERC funded PLANTCULT Project.[2]

• Jacomet, Stefanie & Kreuz, Angela. 1999. Archäobotanik. Aufgaben, Methoden und Ergebnisse vegetations- und agrargeschichtlicher Forschung. Ulmer, Stuttgart. 368 pages. ISBN 3-8252-8158-2
• Jacomet, Stefanie; Kucan, Dusanka; Ritter, Axel; Suter, Georg; Hagendorn, Andrea (2002) Punica granatum (pomegranates) from early Roman contexts in Vindonissa (Switzerland). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 11, 1–2, 79–92.
• Bakels, C. and Jacomet, S. 2003. Access to luxury foods in Central Europe during the Roman period: the archaeobotanical evidence. World Archaeology.
• Jacomet, S. 2006. Plant economy of the northern Alpine lake dwellings—3500–2400 cal. BC. Environmental Archaeology.
• Jacomet, S. 2006. Identification of cereal remains from archaeological sites. Basel University.
• Jacomet, S. 2007. Neolithic plant economies in the northern Alpine Foreland from 5500-3500 cal BC. In The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe, edited by S. Colledge and J. Connolly.
• Jacomet, Stefanie. 2009. Plant economy and village life in Neolithic lake dwellings at the time of the Alpine Iceman. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18/1, 47–59.
• Jacomet, S., Ebersbach, R., Akeret, Ö., Antolín, F., Baum, T., Bogaard, A., Brombacher, C., Bleicher, N. K., Heitz-Weniger, A., Hüster-Plogmann, H., Gross, E., Kühn, M., Rentzel, P., Steiner, B. L., Wick, L., Schibler, J. M. 2016. On-site data cast doubts on the hypothesis of shifting cultivation in the Late Neolithic (ca. 4300-2400 cal. BC). Landscape management as an alternative paradigm. The Holocene. DOI: 10.1177/0959683616645941.

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