Geoarchaeology Working Group
The Geoarchaeology Working Group is an association of around 200 scientists from Germany and neighboring countries who primarily belong to the disciplines of physical geography , geomorphology , archeology and geosciences . The aim is to raise the profile of the geoarchaeological discipline in German-speaking countries in research and teaching.
The largely interdisciplinary working group is a member of both the German Society for Geography (DGfG) and the Society for Scientific Archeology - Archaeometry (GNAA).
With Christian Stolz ( European University Flensburg , geography) and Christopher Miller ( University of Tübingen , archeology) the working group has two working group spokesmen from different disciplines.
history
The working group was founded in May 2004 during the international Eastern Mediterranean / Near Eastern Geoarchaeology Meeting in Tübingen. The first annual conference took place in 2005 at Thurnau Castle near Bayreuth . The offices of the two working group spokesmen were held from 2005 to 2015 by Markus Fuchs ( University of Bayreuth , now University of Gießen , geography) and Katleen Deckers ( University of Tübingen , archeology).
activities
When the working group was founded, there was no comparable institutionalized discipline in Germany or in the neighboring German-speaking countries, although numerous geographers and archaeologists were successful in the field of geoarchaeology. The working group meets every year at a different German university.