• aDNA Laboratory
• Dating techniques, isotope, trace element, and archaeological analysis
• Botanical subplatform

aDNA Laboratory

A high priority of the GS and Platform 2 was to establish an aDNA laboratory, where ancient DNA can be used to address pertinent questions of human development in landscapes with respect to demographic development and migration patterns, development of diseases and kinship issues, as tackled in Cluster 3. To this end, the new ancient DNA (aDNA) lab established in strong cooperation with the DNA lab of the Institute of Legal Medicine was improved and upgraded. To guarantee the reliability and reproducibility of aDNA work at the GS, several projects on quality management and method validation are being carried out.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Almut Nebel
Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
a.nebel@mucosa.de
+49 431 597.1373

Prof. Dr. Ben Krause-Kyora
Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes
b.krause-kyora@ikmb.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 597.2213

Prof. Dr. Nicole von Wurmb-Schwark
Institute of Legal Medicine
NvonWurmb@rechtsmedizin.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 597.3633

Dating techniques, isotope, trace element, and archaeological analysis

This sub-platform will provide facilities for radiometric dating including 14C, 137Cs, 210Pb, and 234U/230Th, stable isotope mass spectrometry (e.g. 18O, 15N, 13C), and trace element analysis; X-ray-fluorescence, energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis, and reference collections of pollen, archaeobotanical specimens, and bones for the identification of finds, as well as expertise for the interpretation of the measurement results and use of the collections.

The Leibniz-Laboratory is a leading 14C dating and stable isotope research facility equipped with a 3MV 14C AMS system and stable isotope ratio mass spectrometers (13C, 18O, & 2H). It measures about 2800 14C samples per year to the best precision attainable (± 20 years for modern samples) needing milligram size samples, and 15.000 stable isotope samples.

The Tracer Analysis Centre (TAC) is a virtual institution which provides the structural frame of the isotope and tracer analysis sub platform together with the Leibniz-Laboratory. The TAC can supply analyses of nearly any kind of isotope and tracer required in modern environmental research. The quality of the data created is internationally recognised and new developments generated by the participating laboratories have contributed to positioning Kiel at the forefront of environmental research.

Contact

Scientific Director

Prof. Dr. Ralph Schneider
Leibniz Laboratory / Institute of Geology
schneider@gpi.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 880.3894

Technical Director

N.N.

Secretary (sample submission)

Andrea Hamann-Wilke
Leibniz Laboratory
ahamann-wilke@leibniz.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 880.7406

Botanical subplatform

A botanical platform is currently being established to serve the needs of multiple projects tackling landscape development, vegetation dynamics, the utilisation of vegetative resources by humans and societies, and the usage of botanical proxies for joint paleo-climatological research. This can be done through a variety of differential paleo- and archaeobotanical approaches, such as pollen analysis, seed and fruit remains analysis, wood and charcoal analysis, dendroecological analysis, and the investigation of modern analogues for an improved scenario building on past landscapes.

The aim of the Botanical Platform is (1) to offer facilities and support for students own research activities concerning botanical matters, (2) to offer teaching of paleo- and archaeobotanical approaches to students, and (3) performing research in the GSs’ framework. The platform bundles existing and new resources and expertise hosted at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and at the Ecology Centre, thus covering a wide range of botanical expertise in an archaeological as well as in an ecological/biological research and teaching context, and bridging via research and teaching activities different disciplines, institutes and faculties at CAU.

Current PhD projects with support of the botanic subplatform

Name	PhD Project	Main project character	Platform support
Annegret Kranz	Landscape-reconstruction near medieval castles in Kirschgraben, Spessart.	Geoarchaeology	wood charcoal analysis, pollen analysis, macrofossil analysis
Uta Lungershausen	Reconstruction of spatiotemporal man-nature interactions – Modeling and quanitification of dune development in sandy plain landscapes in Northern Germany by using GIS and 3D visualization techniques.	Geoarchaeology, wind erosion	wood charcoal analysis, pollen analysis
Vincent Robin	Disturbances and vegetation dynamics as documented by soil charcoal – Holocene space-time dynamics of several forest sites.	Palaeoecology, anthracology	pollen analysis
Aikaterini Glykou	Neustadt, a late Mesolithic-Ertebölle and early Neolithic-Funnel Beaker submerged site: research on the subsistence strategy of the last hunters, foragers and fishers of the Baltic Coast of Northern Germany.	Archaeology, archaeozoology	pollen analysis, macrofossil analysis
Mykola Sadovnik	Reconstruction of the woodland and land use history from Neolithic to recent times in Westensee-Endmorären-Area, Schleswig-Holstein	Palaeoecology, palynology	preparation of pollen samples
Carolin Lubos	Landscape development around the Tell Niederröblingen (Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany).	Geoarchaeology	charcoal analysis, pollen analysis
Daniel Zwick	Maritime logistics in the Age of the Northern Crusades.	Archaeology	wood analysis, macrofossil analysis
Hannes Knapp	Habitat Harz: The environmental history of a mountain area and its foothills.	Environmental archaeology	preparation of pollen samples
Andrea Ricci	Where the river flowed: Cultural landscapes in the Syro- Turkish Middle Euphrates Valley.	Archaeology	macrofossil analysis, charcoal analysis
Hermann Gorbahn	The Neolithic in Peru.	Archaeology	macrofossil analysis
Doris Jansen	Prehistoric wooded environment and wood economy of Northern Central Europe, investigated by archaeo- and geoanthracological methods	Palaeoecology, anthracology	sorting samples for macrofossil analysis
Ingo Petri	Comparative investigations about extracting and working of metals in the early Piast State (earthwork Grzybowo-Rabiezyce) / Oldenburg/Starigard)bv	Archaeology	wood analysis (i.e. tool shanks), charcoal analysis
Marta dal Corso	Environmental reconstruction in the Po-valley, focus Bronze Age	Palaeoecology	Pollen sample prep., macrofossil analysis
Tim Schroedter	Woodland-management and social differentiation of wood use at tell-sites in SE Europe and Turkey	Palaeoecology	Macrofossil analysis, Aktopraklik, NE-Turkey
Timo Bräuer	Carbon-fluxes, dating paddy culture	14C	macro remains from paddy sediment cores
Nelly Friedland	Die Olsborg und ihr Umland. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung einer slawenzeitlichen Region in Wagrien	archaeology, slavonians	macro remain analysis (waterlogged material, 20 samples)

Contact

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Kirleis
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology
wiebke.kirleis@ufg.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 880.3173

Palynology

Dr. Walter Dörfler
Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology
wdoerfler@ufg.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 880.4059

Macroremains analysis

N.N.

Coordination and technical assistance

Dipl.-Biol. Yasmin Dannath
Ecology Centre
yehlers@ecology.uni-kiel.de
+49 431 880.5016 / 2707