Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren

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Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren e. V.
(GfU)
GfU Logo 2013.jpg
purpose Funding for the expansion and further development of the Blaubeuren Museum of Prehistory. Promotion and support of prehistoric research as well as preservation and safeguarding of local prehistoric sites. Promotion and maintenance of the understanding of prehistory.
Chair: Sibylle Wolf, Nicholas J. Conard
Executive Director: Manfred Gassner
Establishment date: September 28, 1988
Number of members: 475
Seat : Blaubeuren
Website: www.gfu-blaubeuren.de

The Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren e. V. (GfU) is a history and development association founded in 1988 with more than 400 members. The company is based in Blaubeuren .

history

The GfU was founded on September 28, 1988 on the initiative of Hansjürgen Müller-Beck . At the beginning of the 1980s, the then professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen was entrusted with the redesign of the Prehistory Museum (URMU) in Blaubeuren. Parts of the financial and personnel expenses for the redesign and operation of the museum should be provided by a foundation or a support association at his suggestion. In addition to Müller-Beck, the founding members included the archaeologists Joachim Hahn , Claus-Joachim Kind , Eberhard Wagner , Ulrich Simon, the first curator of the Prehistoric Museum Anne Scheer , Reiner Blumentritt , Bernhard Stich, Werner Maier and the town's mayor at the time, Georg Hiller .

In addition to the lettering, the club's logo shows an anthropomorphic figure, the so-called adorant, found in 1979 in the Geißenklösterle cave near Blaubeuren-Weiler . The illustration engraved in an ivory plate dates to the Aurignacia and is mainly interpreted as a human-animal hybrid with raised hands or paws . The association has been using a more stylized version of the logo since 2013.

Chairperson

  • 1988–1997 Joachim Hahn
  • 1997–2004 Hansjürgen Müller-Beck
  • 2004–2020 Georg Hiller
  • since 2020 Sibylle Wolf

Purpose of the association and activities

Participant in a GfU excursion in the Grotte de Saint Marcel d'Ardèche

The goals of the non-profit association are to promote and support the Prehistory Museum in Blaubeuren as well as prehistoric research, in particular the Department of Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In addition to securing and preserving the prehistorically relevant sites in the Akhtal , the promotion and maintenance of an understanding of prehistory in the public are among the tasks of the association as laid down in the statutes .

The association organizes lectures on topics from various archaeological research areas as well as courses on experimental archeology and an annual Stone Age day ( open cave day until 2018 ). Between 1989 and 2011, the association provided the excavation teams and helpers working in the Achtal with a building as accommodation and storage. In 2014, the expansion of the URMU was supported by the GfU with 115,000 euros and around 10,000 hours of voluntary work. Several times a year, the GfU organizes excursions , during which, in addition to museums and friendly universities, archaeological sites and ongoing excavations are visited. The trips are prepared and guided by archaeologists, participation is reserved for members of the society.

Publications

Various editions of the annual announcements of the Society for Prehistory

Since 1994 the association has published the announcements of the Society for Prehistory once a year in cooperation with the University of Tübingen (until 2001: Bulletin of the Society for Prehistory ). The yearbooks contain peer-reviewed scientific articles in German and English from the fields of prehistory, Quaternary research and human evolution . The concept was developed by Nicholas J. Conard , while Michael Bolus is responsible for the scientific editing. Members of the scientific advisory board include Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser , Jean-Jacques Hublin and Thorsten Uthmeier . In addition to the printed editions , the individual articles are also made available in an open access version .

Web links

Commons : Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Hiller: 50 Years of Blaubeuren Prehistoric Museum (URMU). In: Communications from the Society for Prehistory, Volume 24 . Blaubeuren 2015, p. 233-252 .
  2. ↑ Max Erdmann: The founding members of the GfU in 1988. In: 1988–2013 25 Years Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren e. V. Self-published, Blaubeuren 2014, p. 12 .
  3. ↑ a b Georg Hiller: Annual report of the chairman of the GfU for 2013. In: Communications of the Society for Prehistory, Volume 22 . Blaubeuren 2013, p. 159-165 .
  4. ↑ Max Erdmann: Bylaws of the Society for Prehistory and Friends of the Prehistoric Museum Blaubeuren e. V. In: 1988–2013 25 years of the Society for Prehistory and the Association for the Promotion of the Prehistory Museum Blaubeuren e. V. Self-published, Blaubeuren 2014, p. 134-137 .
  5. ↑ Georg Hiller: Annual report of the chairman of the GfU for 2019. In: Communications of the Society for Prehistory, Volume 28 . Blaubeuren 2019, p. 147-149 .
  6. ↑ Communications from the Society for Prehistory, Volume 24 - Imprint . Blaubeuren 2015.