Dr. Bernhard Muigg
Post-Doc
Chair of Forest and Forestry History
Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg
E-Mail: muigg@dendroarchaeology.com
For thousands of years, forests have provided numerous important resources for human societies and thus significantly influenced their socio-cultural developments. Over time, the anthropogenic impact changed from a purely extensive to producing and environment-shaping economies. The interaction between human societies and forests is fascinating and central to understanding long-term historical developments.
My training in the humanities as an archaeologist and building heritage researcher was followed by several years of archaeological fieldwork and the practical archaeology, which led me into dendroarchaeology. Thanks to the opportunity to do my doctorate at the faculty, supervised by Prof. Uwe E. Schmidt (completed in 2020), I remained closely connected to the Chair of Forest History. By using archaeological sources, I try to expand the chronological perspective of forest history deeper into the past.
Research foci
- Dendroarchaeology: species identification, dendrochronology, historical and prehistorical woodworking
- Archaeology: Early Middle Ages, Neolithic pile dwellings, medieval archaeology, building archaeology
- Forest History: early forest management systems, subsistence strategies and forest resources, early timber transport
- Tree-rings: cross-dating, standardization, composite chronologies, dendroclimatology, long-term reconstructions