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Dr. Walter Dörfler, Academic staff

Academic staff | Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

Dr. Walter Dörfler (Germany)

founding member

PhD University of Göttingen
Research area Palaeoecology
Scientific Education

1976 - 1984
Diploma Study of Biology, specialisation in Botany, Anthropology, Pedology in Göttingen

1984 - 1988
Ph.D. studies in Göttingen

1988
Doctoral theses: „Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Vegetations- und Siedlungsgeschichte im Süden des Landkreises Cuxhaven“

1994
Scientific stay as fellow of the ‚Alexander von Humboldt Foundation‘ in Galway, Ireland

Scientific experience

1976 - 1984
Participation in different archaeological excavations between terms

1985 - 1988
Ph.D. position at the Institute for Pre and Early History, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel

Since 1988
Permanent position as ‚Akademischer Rat‘ equivalent to ‚scientist/lecturer‘ at the Institute for Pre- and Early History, Kiel.

2006
Appointment to ‚Akademischer Oberrat‘ (senior lecturer)

Expertise in Holocene Palaeoecology, especially Palynology and Tephrochronology. Participation in numerous archaeological projects in Europe and Anatolia. Studies on settlement- and environmental history, natural resources, wood-consumption and iron production, cultural landscapes, continuity and change in natural and cultural developments.

Settlement-history in Angeln and Schwansen, Schleswig-Holstein

Neolithic in the Trave valley, near Albersdorf and in the Altmark Alke-sediments in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Iron production in roman-iron-age Joldelund Romanisation in the middle mountainuous area (Hunsrück and Eifel)

Environmental history of a Karst region in western Ireland (Burren)

Environment and economy of the Hittite empire, central Anatolia

Bronze-Age environmental changes near Bruszczewo, Polen

Neolithic land-use near Okolišće, Bosnien-Herzegowina.

Selected publications

submitted
Wieckowska, M., Dörfler, W., Kirleis, W.: Vegetation and settlement history of the last 9000 years recorded in a lake deposit from Großer Eutiner See, Northern Germany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

submitted
Wieckowska, M., Dörfler, W., Kirleis, W.: Holocene lake level change and its influence on human settlement on islands in the Ostholstein lakeland area, Northern Germany. Environmental Archaeology

accepted
Wieckowska, M., Dörfler, W., Kirleis, W.: Holocene history of environment and human impact on two islands in the Ostholstein lakeland area, Northern Germany. Special Issue, Proceedings of the Symposium 20 "Human Landscapes and Climate Change" at the 8th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference held at Budapest, Hungary, July 2010, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

2009
Dörfler, W., Jacobsen, O., Klooß, S.: Indikatoren des nacheiszeitlichen Meeresspiegelanstiegs der Ostsee - Eine methodische Diskussion am Beispiel der Ostseeförde Schlei, Schleswig-Holstein. In: Zwischen Nord- und Ostsee 1997-2007 [AMLA-Tagung Kiel 2007], Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 165, Kiel.

2009
Dörfler, W.: Seespiegelschwankungen des Großen Plöner Sees im Licht alter und neue Daten. In: Zwischen Nord- und Ostsee 1997-2007 [AMLA-Tagung Kiel 2007], Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 165, Kiel.

2009
Bleile, R., Dörfler, W., Kleingärtner, S., Müller, U., Nelle, O.: Das Projekt Olsborg. Untersuchungen auf einer Insel im Großen Plöner See. In: Müller, U., Kleingärtner, S., Huber, F. (eds.), Zwischen Nord- und Ostsee. Zehn Jahre Arbeitsgruppe für maritime und liminische Archäologie (AMLA). Universitätsforsch. Prähist. Arch. 165: 109-128.

2008
Enters, D., Dörfler, W., Zolitschka, B.: Historical soil erosion and land-use change during the last two millennia recorded in lake sediments of Frickenhauser See, northern Bavaria, central Germany. The Holocene 18/2: 243-254.

2008
Dörfler, W.: Das 3. Jahrtausend vor Chr. in hochauflösenden Pollendiagrammen aus Norddeutschland. In: Dörfler, W., Müller, J. (eds.) Umwelt - Wirtschaft - Siedlungen im dritten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend Mitteleuropas und Südskandinaviens [Kongress Kiel 2005]. Offa-Bücher 84: 135-148.

2008
Dörfler, W.: Digiwa - Ein digitaler Wanderführer zur Natur und Kulturgeschichte. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 70: 99-107.

2007
U. Selig, T. Leipe, Dörfler, W.: Paleolimnological Records of Nutrient and Metal Profiles in Prehistoric, Historic and Modern Sediments of Three Lakes in North-eastern Germany. Water, Air & Soil Pollution 184: 183-194.

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