2026 News from the MPI of Geoanthropology

MPI-GEA researchers have worked with an international consortium to create a new open-science computing platform for studying the diversity of past urbanism and systematically comparing it to the cities of today. more

A new interdisciplinary study published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology introduces an innovative framework for translating biomolecular data from archaeological materials into scent recreations, offering museums and heritage institutions powerful new tools for storytelling, education, and immersive interpretation. more

MPI-GEA researchers are part of a long-term collaborative ethnographic framework applying isotope analysis to human hair to study how pastoralist diets in eastern Africa adapt to rainfall variation in increasingly extreme 21^st century conditions.  more

On 12 January, 2026, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung published a large interview with MPI-GEA and SusMax-Postdoc Dr. Benjamin Steininger on the enduring legacy of oil in the Anthropocene more