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Left lower jaw fragment of a female hippo

Ice Age in the Upper Rhine Graben: Hippopotamuses Lived Longer in Europe Than Previously Thought

Hippopotamuses survived in Central Europe significantly longer than previously believed—even during the last Ice Age in the Upper Rhine Graben.

Dr. Susanne Lindauer
Dr. Ronny Friedrich
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Rosendahl
Bronze warrior figurine from the sanctuary of Abini-Teti in central Sardinia

Archaeometric Breakthrough: Local Copper, Imported Tin

Isotope Research with Osmium Sheds Light on Sardinia’s Bronze Age.

Dr. Daniel Berger
Dr. Michael Brauns
Dome du Goûter am Ausläufer des Mont Blanc

Oldest Ice Core from the Alps Provides Insights into 12,000 Years of Climate and Human History

CEZA is capable of performing the complex measurements required by combining various dating methods.

Dr. Ronny Friedrich
Map of Europe

Did British tin make the European Bronze Age?

Analysis of tin artefacts from three c. 1300BC shipwrecks off the coast of Israel finds the tin originated from south-west Britain. This indicates British tin was traded as far as the Eastern Mediterranean, 4000km away.

Dr. Daniel Berger
Timeline Avar Periods

HistoGenes – Research results published in Nature

The latest insights on biological and social relations of the Avars in the Great Hungarian Plain were recently published in the renowned scientific journal Nature.

Dr. Corina Knipper
Dr. Ronny Friedrich
Laboratory room

HISCAR – A second revolution!

The CEZA project HISCAR closes important gaps to create the longest uninterrupted period of annually resolved ¹⁴C data.

Dr. Ronny Friedrich
Diagram Calibration of the Ion Chromatography Columns

Localisation of lithium deposits using multi-parameter approaches

Lithium (Li) has been classified by the European Union as a strategically critical raw material since 2023 under the Critical Raw Materials Act, which means that by 2030 at least 10% of these raw materials should be mined in the EU and no more than 65% should be dependent on a third country.

Prof. Dr. Ernst Pernicka
Dr. Michael Brauns