[3] She took over the archeobotanical analysis in the archaeological excavation project of the settlement Feddersen Wierde where she studied a large assemblage of waterlogged plant remains.
[1] After a family break and the death of her husband Körber-Grohne moved in 1970 to the University of Hohenheim and worked at the local Botanical Institute under Burkhard Frenzel.
[1][5] During this period she worked on a range of archaeological projects in south-west Germany, including archaeobotanical remains from the Roman castellum of Welzheim,[6] and from the grave of a Halstatt chief at Hochdorf.
[7] She developed methodologies for the identification of ancient textile fragments, including a study of Viking finds from Haithabu.
[1] A festschrift was published in 1988 entitled Der prähistorische Mensch und seine Umwelt.