Marjeta Jeraj
Research
Intern
Department of Botany
University of Wisconsin
430 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Office: 349 Birge Hall
Phone: (+1)
608 262 2279
Fax: (+1) 608 262 7509
E-mail: mjeraj@wisc.edu
Honorary Associate Fellow
Center for Climatic Research
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Office: 1111 Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science
Phone: (+1) 608 261 1459
Fax: (+1) 608 263 4190
RESEARCH INTERESTS
One of my major research interests is environmental history, especially reconstruction of past vegetation, landscape, climate and hydrological regime, on regional and local scale. In addition, my recent work, based on plant remains from archaeological sites and on- and off-site palaeoecological records, has focused on human settlement history and human impact on the environment such as agricultural practices and forest clearance. In my research, located mainly in Central Europe and in Hawai‘i, I have been applying an integrated approach of palaeoecological and archaeobotanical studies to better understand long-term co-evolutionary interactions between people and their environments. My recent areas of study include:
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European Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation and climate history
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beginning of agriculture in Europe
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human ecodynamics of the Hawaiian ecosystem
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impact of early settlers on the environment
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ethnobotanical values of archaeobotanical remains
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use of wood in archaeological contents
PUBLICATIONS
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Jeraj M. 2000. Palynological investigations of the archaeological profile from the pile dwelling Hocevarica. Arheol. vestn. 51, 109-112.
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Jeraj M. 2002. Archaeobotanical evidence for early agriculture at Ljubljansko barje (Ljubljana Moor), central Slovenia. Veg. Hist. Arch. 11: 277-288.
