Klaus Oeggl

Klaus Oeggl (* 1955 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian botanist who deals with the paleoecology and Archaeobotany the Alps. He is mainly known for his work on the life and environment of the Neolithic glacier corpse Ötzi.

Life

Klaus Oeggl graduated in Biology and Earth Sciences at the University of Innsbruck ( LFU), which he completed in 1981. In 1987 he was PhD in botany. In the period of 1982-83 Klaus Oeggl taught at general secondary schools. In 1983 he moved to the University of Innsbruck where he worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Botany at first. This was followed by employment as a university assistant at Sigmar Bortenschlager and as a university lecturer at the Institute. 1997 Klaus Oeggl was appointed extraordinary professor at the Institute of Botany. Since 2011 he has been professor of Palynology and Archaeobotany and forwards the same research group at the Institute of Botany. As part of his teaching, he was repeatedly employed as a guest lecturer at the University of Bergen and a visiting professor at the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand and at the Free University of Bolzano.

Work

Oeggl is intensely concerned with the interaction between humans and the plant world in the past. The spectrum of his research ranges from the spread of crops, the diet, the farming of prehistoric people, the reconstruction of vegetation and environment in the vicinity of prehistoric settlements right up to the emergence of today's cultural landscape of the Alps. In his research Oeggl represents a multi-and interdisciplinary research approach with archaeological and other scientific disciplines, as the genesis of cultural landscapes and the development towards today's plant cover in the Alps multifactorial processes are subject to abiotic and biotic nature. His preferred methods used are pollen analysis, plant macrofossil analysis and geochemistry, which provide the basic data for hypotheses testing and model validation. Outstanding are his investigations in connection with the Neolithic glacier mummy "Ötzi". More recently he scrutinizes the paleoecological and socio - economic impact of ancient mining in the Alps in the research center HiMAT of Innsbruck University .. In addition, it discussed in detail in a separate research center (FC HiMAT ) with the palaeo-environmental and socio - cultural impact of mining in the Alps. His studies Oeggl has driven in 45 EU-funded, science funds, foundations, museums and local research projects.

Writings (selection )

  • Oeggl K. & U. Eicher 1989: Pollen -and oxygen - isotope Analyses of late -and postglacial sediments from the alluvial raised bog near Walchsee in Tyrol, Austria. Boreas, 18: 245-253
  • Oeggl K. 1992: sediment and macrofossil analyzes from the Lanser See in Tirol (Austria): a contribution to late-glacial organic and chronostratigraphy of the Eastern Alps. Flora, 186: 43 - 62
  • Oeggl K. & N. Wahlmüller 1994: The Environment of a High Alpine Mesolithic Camp Site in Austria. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Contribution Series, 29:147 - 160
  • Oeggl K. 1998: Palynological investigations in the field of Roman planks pathway in Lermoos, Tirol. In: E. Walde (ed): Via Claudia. New research. Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Leopold -Franzens -Universität Innsbruck: 147-171
  • Dickson JH, Oeggl K., Holden TG, Handley LL, O'Connell TC & Preston T. 2000: The Omnivorous Tyrolean Iceman: colon contents ( meat, cereals, pollen, moss and whipworm ) and Stable Isotope Analyses. Phil Trans R. Society London B 355: 1843-1849
  • Oeggl K. & Unterfrauner S. 2000: The Great plants remains of the crack / Würm interglacial and Würmglazials of Mondsee. Communications from the Commission for Quartärfoschung 12: 93-121
  • A. Schmidl, W. Kofler, Notburgastraße Oeggl - Wahlmüller & Oeggl K. 2005: Land use in the Eastern Alps falling on the Bronze Age - An archaeobotanical case study of a hill -top settlement in the Montafon ( Western Austria). Archaeometry, 47: 455-470
  • Schmidl A. & Oeggl K. 2005: Subsistence strategies of two hilltop settlements in the Eastern Alps - Friaga / Bartholomäberg (Vorarlberg, Austria ) and Ganglegg / Schluderns (South Tyrol, Italy ). Vegetation History & archaeobotany, 14: 303-312
  • A. Schmidl, Jacomet S., Oeggl K. (2007): Distribution patterns of cultivated plants in the Eastern Alps (Central Europe ) falling on Iron Age. - Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, 243-254
  • Oeggl K., Kofler W., A. Schmidl, Dickson JH, Egarter - Vigl E., Gaber O. 2007: The reconstruction of the load itinerary of "Ötzi", the Neolithic Iceman, by pollen Analyses from Sequentially sampled well extracts. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 853-861
  • Oeggl K. (2009): The Significance of the Tyrolean Iceman for the archaeobotany of Central Europe. Vegetation History & archaeobotany, 18: 1 - 11 DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0186-2
  • Hot A. & Oeggl K. (2009): The plant remains from the Iceman 's find spot - new results on the glacier mummy 's environment. Vegetation History & archaeobotany, 18: 23 - 35
  • Oeggl K., A. Schmidl, Kofler W., (2009): Origin and seasonality of subfossil tion from the Iceman 's discovery site (Eastern Alps ). Vegetation History & archaeobotany, 18: 37 - 46
  • Oeggl K. & K. Nicolussi 2009: Prehistoric colonization of central Alpine valleys in relation to climate change. In: R. Schmid, C. Matulla, Psenner R. (eds. ): Climate Change in Austria. The last 20,000 years .... and a look ahead. Innsbruck university press. Alpine space - man and environment: Vol. 6: 77-86
  • Oeggl K. 2009: The palaeoecology of the historic and prehistoric mining in the Eastern Alps. Reports of Reinhold Tüxen Society, 21: 241-252
  • Breitenlechner, E.; Hilber, M.; Lutz, J.; Kathrein, Y.; Under Kircher, A.; Oeggl, K., 2010: The impact of mining activities on the environment reflected by pollen, charcoal and geochemical Analyses. Journal of Archaeological Sciences 37: 1458-1467
  • D. Festi, Tecchiat U., Steiner, H., Oeggl K. 2011: The Late Neolithic settlement of Laces, northern Italy: subsistence of a settlement contemporary with the Alpine Iceman, and located in his valley of origin. Vegetation History & archaeobotany 20: 367-379
  • Schibler J., Breitenlechner E. Deschler - Erb S., Goldberg, G., K. Hanke, Hiebel G., Hüster Plogmann H., Nicolussi K., Marti- Grädel E., Pichler S., A. Schmidl, Black S., stop B. & Oeggl K. 2011: Miners and mining in the Late Bronze Age: a multidisciplinary study from Austria. Antiquity 85: 1259-1278
  • Black AS, Krause R. Oeggl K. 2013: Anthracological analysis from a mining site in the Eastern Alps to evaluate woodland uses falling on the Bronze Age. BAR International Series 2486: 241-250
  • Breitenlechner E., Goldberg G., Lutz J., Oeggl K. 2013: The impact of prehistoric mining activities on the environment: a multidisciplinary study at the fen Schwarzenberg Moos ( Brixlegg, Tyrol, Austria ). Vegetation History & archaeobotany. 22: 351-366
  • Behre K.-E. & Oeggl K. 1996 ( eds. ): Early Farming in the Old World. Recent Advances in archaeobotanical research. Special Volume of Vegetation History & archaeobotany. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • Bortenschlager S. & Oeggl K. (eds. ) 2000: The Iceman and his natural environment. The Man in the Ice Vol 4 Springer Verlag, Wien - New York
  • Anreiter, P.; Goldberg, G.; Hanke, K.; Krause, R.; Leitner, W.; Mathis, F.; Nicolussi, K.; Oeggl, K.; Pernicka, E.; Prast, M.; Schibler, J.; Schneider, I.; Stadler, H.; Stöllner, T.; Tomedi, G.; Tropper, P. ( eds ) 2010: Mining in European History and Its Impact on Environment and Human Societies. Proceedings for the 1st Mining in European History - Conference of the SFB HiMAT ( 12 to 15 November 2009 Innsbruck). innsbruck university press.
  • Goldberg G., Töchterle U., Oeggl K. & Krenn - Leeb A. ( eds ) 2011: Research program HiMAT. New to the mining history of the Eastern Alps. Archaeology in Austria Special 4
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