Hugo Obermaier Society

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The Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age eV (HOG) is a non-profit association founded in 1951 that has dedicated itself to the archeology of the Stone Age , especially the cultures of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic . The society bears the name in honor of Hugo Obermaier (1877-1946), who, as a prehistoric of German descent in the first half of the 20th century, was one of the first Stone Age researchers to work in Europe.

founding

The society was founded in 1951 under the leadership of the prehistorian Lothar Zotz . In 1956 it received the addition "for research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age". Members are specialists in prehistory and early history , geology , geography , paleontology , paleobotany , paleoclimatology and anthropology as well as interested laypeople. The society has around 250 individual members as well as various institutions from all over Europe.

Statute and goals

The seat of the association is Regensburg , Obermaier's birth town. The office is run by the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Erlangen .

The task of society is to cultivate and promote the interests and concerns of Quaternary research, particularly with regard to the study of Stone Age man , his environment and his cultures. Priority should always be given to work that is in the intellectual tradition of Hugo Obermaier's work. The following points are named as goals in the statutes:

  • Support and publication of the Quaternary yearbook ,
  • Maintaining relationships with foreign Quaternary and Stone Age researchers,
  • Implementation of conferences,
  • Support for archaeological excavations and research projects.

With the annual general meeting in 2012, the HOG joined the German Association for Archeology , which was founded in 2011 as an umbrella organization and interest group for archeology in Germany.

Meetings

The society holds its annual meetings in the week after Easter. The conferences are meetings for scientists and students of the mentioned disciplines to present current research work in a public forum. The events are also accessible to interested laypeople. Since 1999, conference locations in Germany and other European countries have been roughly the same:

Publications

Yearbook

At the congress of the International Quaternary Association (INQUA) in Vienna in 1936, the participants decided to found a journal in which articles on the stratigraphy of the Quaternary and on the oldest human history are published. Volumes 1 (1938) and 2 (1939) of the QUARTÄR yearbook were edited by Rudolf Grahmann and Lothar Zotz. The QUARTÄR volumes 3 (1941) and 4 (1942) and the following up to and including volume 17 (1966) were edited by Lothar Zotz alone. After a gap in the war and early post-war years, the yearbook was published again regularly from volume 5 (1951), although this volume was still largely financed by the emergency community of German science .

From volume 6 (1953), the first volume after the founding of the Obermaier Society, the series was subtitled “Yearbook of the Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and its Cultures”. Since the 1970s up to and including volume 53/54 (2006), mostly double volumes have been published. A publisher was changed from volume 39/40 (1989) from Ludwig-Röhrscheid-Verlag to Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag (SDV).

Since volume 55 (2008), the volumes have been published annually by Verlag Marie Leidorf (VML) and now have the subtitle “International Yearbook for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age”.

Since 2012, all articles in previous yearbooks have been accessible as PDF files in Open Access . From the most recently published volume, only the summaries of the articles can be viewed online in the first year.

Monographs

Since it was founded, nine volumes of the QUARTÄR-Bibliothek monograph series have been published on behalf of the Obermaier Society . This includes four volumes that deal with the Paleolithic of the Armchair Rock Grotto .

Hugo Obermaier sponsorship award

Since 2006, the society has been awarding a sponsorship prize of 5,000 euros every two years for doctoral students who want to carry out their own excavation project in the area of ​​the Palaeolithic or Mesolithic .

literature

  • Christian Züchner: Fifty years of the Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age. History and goals of the company. In: Quartär, Volume 53/54, 2006, pp. 9-20 doi: 10.7485 / QU53_01

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Züchner 2006
  2. ↑ Start page of the homepage with overview information
  3. ↑ a b Homepage of the QUARTÄR magazine
  4. ↑ List of annual meetings (HOG website)
  5. ^ Christian Züchner: The 41st meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Mikulov (Czech Republic) with excursions to the Pollau Mountains and the Moravian Karst . Conference report. Quartär 51/52, 2000, pp. 229-259
  6. ^ Christian Züchner: The 42nd meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Tübingen with excursions to paleolithic and paleobotanical sites in the Swabian Alb and on the upper Danube. Quartär 51/52, 2000, pp. 261-283
  7. ↑ Christian Züchner: The 43rd meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society 2001 in Hall ad Saale with excursions to palaeolithic and Quaternary geological outcrops in the lignite opencast mines of Reichwalde and of Markkleeberg and Zwenkau near Leipzig. Quartär 53/54, 2006, pp. 189-206
  8. ^ Christian Züchner: The 44th meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in 2002 in Innsbruck (Austria) with excursions to the middle and lower Inn valley. Conference report. Quartär 53/54, 2006, pp. 207–228.
  9. ^ Christian Züchner: Report on the 45th annual meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age e. V. in cooperation with the Prehistoric Department of the Universidad de Cantabria in Santander (Northern Spain) from April 22nd to 26th, 2003. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 9, 2004, pp. 380–382
  10. ^ Leif Steguweit: 46th annual meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society for Research into the Ice Age and the Stone Age eV from April 13th to 17th, 2004 in the Hanseatic city of Greifswald. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 10, 2005, pp. 342-345
  11. ↑ Leif Steguweit: Report on the 47th meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society from March 29 to April 2 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 11, 2006, pp. 294–299
  12. ^ Leif Steguweit: Report on the 48th meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society from April 18-22, 2006 in Cologne. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 12, 2007, pp. 280–284
  13. ↑ Leif Steguweit: Report on the 49th meeting of the society in Trento (Italy) from April 10-14 , 2007. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 13, 2008, pp. 297-301
  14. ^ Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (Ed.): 50th annual conference in Erlangen . Erlangen (PrintCom oHG) 2008, ISBN 978-3-937852-02-7
  15. ↑ Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (Ed.): 51st Annual Meeting in Ljubljana . Erlangen (PrintCom oHG) 2009, ISBN 978-3-937852-03-4
  16. ^ Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (ed.): 52nd annual conference in Leipzig . Erlangen (PrintCom oHG) 2010, ISBN 978-3-937852-04-1
  17. ^ Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (ed.): 53rd annual conference in Herne . Erlangen (PrintCom oHG) 2011, ISBN 978-3-933474-75-9
  18. ↑ Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft (Ed.): 54th Annual Meeting in Toulouse . Erlangen, Verlag Dr. Faustus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-933474-79-7
  19. ^ Hugo Obermaier Society (ed.): 55th annual meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Vienna. Publishing house Dr. Faustus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-933474-86-5
  20. ^ Hugo Obermaier Society (ed.): 56th annual meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Braunschweig and Schöningen. Publishing house Dr. Faustus, 2014, ISBN 978-3-933474-91-9
  21. ^ Hugo Obermaier Society (ed.): 57th annual meeting of the Hugo Obermaier Society in Heidenheim. Publishing house Dr. Faustus, 2015, ISBN 978-3-933474-97-1
  22. ^ Website of the meetings of the Hugo Obermaier Society , accessed on May 6, 2016
  23. ↑ Download archive
  24. ↑ List of monographs in the "Quaternary Library" series
  25. ↑ Gisela Freund : Sesselfelsgrotte I, excavation process and stratigraphy. 1998.
  26. ↑ Wolfgang Weißmüller : Sesselfelsgrotte II, The flint artifacts of the lower layers of the Sesselfelsgrotte. A contribution to the problem of the Moustérien. 1995.
  27. ↑ Jürgen Richter: Sesselfelsgrotte III, The G-layer complex of the Sesselfelsgrotte. To understand the micoquia. 1997.
  28. ↑ Andreas Dirian: Sesselfelsgrotte V, The late Upper Palaeolithic and the Late Paleolithic of the upper layers of the Sesselfelsgrotte. 2003.
  29. ^ Announcement and statutes of the Hugo Obermaier-Förderpreis