The Chair of Physical Geography at the University of Jena is presenting the method of pollen analysis in collaboration with the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology in Weimar.
This draws conclusions from various climatic and environmental archives about the development of human use and the climate, which had an impact on changes in the landscape. Lakes, moors, floodplains, archaeological features and soil profiles are the areas studied by the scientists. Whether cooler or warmer, wetter or drier, used by humans for agriculture, animal husbandry or forestry - in their work, the researchers act like criminal investigators. They reconstruct processes that have shaped our earth's surface and changed our environment over thousands of years from a wealth of evidence and clues. Whether traces of the oldest farmers in the Altenburger Land, old paths across the Thuringian Forest or forest use and mining in the Thuringian Slate Mountains in various archaeological epochs - the pollen grains reveal the secrets of the past. Marvel at the latest results of various research projects in Thuringia as well as the microscopically small particles that make it possible to uncover the history(ies).