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Pauline Van Rijn
Pauline van Rijn graduated in 1990 at the University of Amsterdam with a Master in Science in prehistory of Northwest Europe with the specialization in wood and charcoal research. The subject of her thesis was the wood research of the Roman period settlement in Valkenburg-Marktveld excavated between 1985 and 1988.
Her current field of work and research interest is archaeobotany, palaeoecology and archaeology of wood and woodlands.
Her main field of interests is the technology of wood use in Northwest Europe and much of her research focuses on the exploitation of woodlands in prehistoric times and the effects on woods and woodlands. She participated in courses and workshops concerning diverse aspects of wood research lectured by Dr. Francis Pryor and M. Taylor, Petersborough and Damian Goodburn in England and Prof. dr. F.H. Schweingruber in Switzerland. She participated in the research conducted by Dr. E. Jansma on the dendrochronological dating.
She participates in various wood and charcoal research projects for the University of Amsterdam, University of Galway (Ireland), Catholic University in Nijmegen and diverse City Archaeological Services and museums in the Netherlands. She conducted teaching classes in wood and charcoal research for the archaeology students at the Amsterdam Archaeological Centrum of the University of Amsterdam. Between 1993 and 1994 she was working for Foundation RING which is a Centre for Dutch Dendrochronological Research (Het Nederlands Centrum voor Dendrochronologisch Onderzoek).
Since 1994 she is a partner in BIAX Consult.
