Change in CEZA’s Management
After many years of dedicated service, Prof. Dr. Ernst Pernicka is handing over the role of Scientific Managing Director of CEZA to Dr. Ronny Friedrich and will continue to support the institute in an advisory capacity.
CEZA Contributes to Study on Recurrent Extreme Flood Events in the Ahr Valley
The study “Fluvial deposits of the Ahr River reveal recurring high-magnitude flood events during the last 1500 years” has recently been published in the journal Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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.
Archaeometric Breakthrough: Local Copper, Imported Tin
Isotope Research with Osmium Sheds Light on Sardinia’s Bronze Age.
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.
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.
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.
HISCAR – A second revolution!
The CEZA project HISCAR closes important gaps to create the longest uninterrupted period of annually resolved ¹⁴C data.
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.
On the trail of the tin mystery of the Bronze Age
Mannheim scientists succeed in making a spectacular breakthrough with multi-parameter approach.
Who will solve the puzzle of Bronze Age tin?
The origin of tin ingots from ancient Mediterranean shipwreck disputed - The metal may have come from Cornwall.
¹⁴C is the solution
Radiocarbon (14C) dating is a universally applicable dating method in archaeology as well as in geosciences, biosciences or environmental sciences, as well as in climate and solar research. Especially for organic materials, 14C dating is a universal and precise method for age determination.