CEZA strengthens regional networks
In terms of networking, CEZA benefited greatly from the lifting of coronavirus restrictions in 2022 and was able to strengthen its networking activities through personal contacts as well as re-establish face-to-face dialogue with many institutions and associations.
Ice Age encounter: hippopotamus meets mammoth
New findings from the research project "Ice Age Window Upper Rhine Graben", funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, revise previously held ideas about the living environment of the last Ice Age in the Upper Rhine region. It has been shown that hippos lived here until around 32,000 years ago.
1000 years of Europeans in America
Mannheim researchers, as part of an international team, date the earliest activity of Europeans in the Americas for the first time.
Annual growth rings Radiocarbon comparison
CEZA's radiocarbon laboratory has successfully participated in an international tree ring radiocarbon comparison.
Climate reconstruction of the 8.2k event
Climate reconstruction of the 8.2k event - a DFG project at CEZA in co-operation with national partners.
Uncovering the cave bear fauna in the Alp
CEZA has contributed to a publication revealing the former cave bear fauna in the Alps with a radiocarbon analysis (14C).
BMBF funding for innovative research with radiocarbon (¹⁴C)
CEZA received funding from the BMBF on the basis of the Research Grants Act for the project "Basic research into the carbon cycle and its influence on climate and archaeology".
Micro-¹⁴C-dating at CEZA: A case study on the dating of ice aprons
CEZA has contributed to a case study with micro-14C dating (gas ion source) in which an ice apron was successfully dated.
Dating of the Thera eruption: CEZA presents a new ¹⁴C finding
From the German oak tree-ring chronology, annually resolved tree-ring samples from the period 1625-1510 BC were analysed.
Publication in “Nature Geoscience”
The CEZA took part in an international project to reconstruct the past climate during the cold periods. The CEZA contributed with a radiocarbon analysis (14C).
The GRAPHTEC project
Graphite-painted pottery of the Balkans from the Neolithic/Chalcolithic period: an archaeometric study of ceramic technology and innovation processes in prehistoric Europe.
Even more than meat and milk
Bronze Age pastoralists in the North Caucasus utilised the rich food sources of the mountains and steppes.