German associations for antiquity research

The German associations for antiquity research are an amalgamation of associations in the field of archaeological research in Germany.

The Presidium is made up of the three large associations for antiquity research:

• Northwest German Association for Antiquity Research (founded in 1904)
• Central and East German Association for Antiquity Research (founded after the fall of the Wall in 1991)
• South and West German Association for Antiquity Research (founded in 1900)

They represent the interests of archaeological research and support them within their regional framework. The German associations for antiquity research also include the Association of State Archaeologists in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Archaeological Association and the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute .

The associations are co-editors of the journal Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt (together with the RGZM ). The associations had published the Archäologische Nachrichtenblatt until 2012 . Now Blickpunkt Aräologie serves as the association's journal.

Various working groups are represented at the association conferences, which are brought together every three years to form the German Archaeological Congress - 2017 in Mainz:

• WG Archeology in the Museum
• AG Bronze Age
• Gender research group
• AG Neolithic
• Iron Age group
• Working group Roman times
• Working group Roman Empire in the Barbaricum
• AG Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
• AG theory
• AG CAA Working Group Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology
• AK clay pipes
• AK Geoarchaeology

Some earlier AGs have now given themselves the form of an association, such as the

• German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times
• German Society for Scientific Archaeometry and the
• Hugo Obermaier Society

Web links

• Entry on Clio-online
• http://www.mova-online.de/ (Central and East German Association for Ancient Studies)
• http://www.nwdv.org/ (Nordwestdeutscher Verband für Altertumsforschung e.V.)
• http://www.wsva.net/ (West and South German Association for Antiquity Research)
• http://www.dgamn.de (German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times)
• http://www.archaeometrie.de (AG Archaeometry)
• http://www.akgeoarchaeologie.de (AG Geoarchaeology)
• http://www.ag-caa.de (AG Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology)
• http://www.ag-neolithikum.de (AG Neolithikum)
• http://www.theorieag.de/ (theory working group)
• http://www.knasterkopf.de/htm/akreis/aein.htm (Knasterkopf = AK clay pipes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ One of his co-founders was Wilhelm Ohnesorge
2. ↑ http://www.dvarch.de/dva_blickpunkte.php