Laboratory of Chronology

The Laboratory of Chronology is a National Centre for age determinations with physical methods. Radiocarbon dating (AMS-technique) as well as TL-OSL methods are in use.

Stable isotope investigations in environmental and paleoclimate research form an important part of the laboratory's activities.

Research projects

• MILLENNIUM
  European climate of the last millennium
• The Solar-terrestrial climate link in the past millennia and its influence on future climate
• The royal Arzhan-2 monument and the Scythian world of Eurasia in the 1st millenium BC
• Re-creation of the patina of engraved or painted Saharan sandstones bearing 15000 years of climatic changes
• Climatic effects on soil carbon – distinction between young and old compounds, and new future scenarios