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Excellent Weather Conditions and Plenty of Data: SUBNORDICA on an Exciting Research Expedition in…
New insights gained into the construction of the Wanna megalithic tomb
A year of working at the NIhK as part of the FSJ has come to an end …
Fething, tidal channel and water well: geoarchaeological excavations at Iggewarden completed
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The Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) studies the development of settlements, landscapes, and vegetation of the German coastline and its surroundings starting in the last ice age and reaching into the present day. Our institute employs a wide range of methods, combining and continuously developing various techniques from microscopic environmental research to the study of whole landscapes and settlements.