Norbert Benecke
Norbert Benecke is a German archaeozoologist.
Academic history
Norbert Benecke studied biology at the Universität Halle from 1974 through 1978. In that latter year, he was awarded the title Diplom-Biologe.In 1979, he became a "scientific worker" at the Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie of the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR.
Benecke received his doctorate in 1984 in Berlin on faunal remains at the early Medieval settlement of Ralswiek on the island of Rügen.
Starting in 1992, he was Docent for archaeozoology at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Berlin, and from 2003 until retiring in 2020, he was the Director of the Natural Sciences Department at the DAI.
Benecke's foci are on the use of the animal world in various ecosystems during the Neolithic through the Iron Age as well as animal domestication.