Dr. Sascha Krüger

Sascha Krüger is a project researcher at the department of Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science at the National Museum of Denmark. He is a palynologist with a specific focus on Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation changes, environmental overturns and human-environmental interactions. In different projects he investigates late palaeolithic reindeer hunting grounds, attempts to reconstruct biomes of Doggarland, explores Iron Age reforestation in Denmark and adds to the understanding of Norse economy in Greenland.
Sascha studied Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at the University of Kiel and was awarded a PhD at Kiel University and the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in 2020 as part of the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation”. Since 2021 he is employed at the National Museum of Denmark.

Key publications

• Krüger S, Dörfler W, Bennike O, Wolters S (2017) Life in Doggerland – palynological investigations of the environment of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies in the North Sea Basin. Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart 66(1): 3-13.
• Krüger S and Damrath M (2019) In search of the Bølling-Oscillation: a new high resolution pollen record from the locus classicus Lake Bølling, Denmark. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 29(2): 189-211.
• Krüger S (2020) Of birches, smoke and reindeer dung – Tracing human-environmental interactions palynologically in sediments from the Nahe palaeolake. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32: 1-16.
• Krüger S, Mortensen MF and Dörfler W (2020) Sequence completed – palynological investigations on Lateglacial/Early Holocene environmental changes recorded in sequentially laminated lacustrine sediments of the Nahe palaeolake in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 280: 1-24.
• Krüger S, Schneider T, Bradley RS, Castañeda IS, Feeser I, Madsen CK, Strunk A, Zhao B (2024) The steady loss–Palynological investigation into the main triggers of changes in vegetation and pastoral activity during the Norse period in southern Greenland. Quaternary Environments and Humans 2(5): 1-14.