The IWGP Committee
The committee steers the Work Group’s activities and supports its pursuit of international networking and communication. This group of varying size decides upon our conference locations, and accompanies conference organisers (hosts + steering committee + scientific committee) in a role similiar to an external advisory board.
Since the second conference in 1971, new committee members are being elected by a majority of the already active ones. In order to maintain continuity and stability, these positions are usually given to established researchers and are permanent until reclining. Since 2022, two rotating positions are given to early career researchers.
Permanent Committee Members
Rotating Committee Members
(Early Career Scientists)
Former Committee Members
We are most grateful to these researchers for founding, guiding, and shaping the IWGP over the decades:
![]() Corrie C. Bakels Universiteit Leiden, Faculteit Archeologie Leiden, The Netherlands |
![]() Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
![]() (1914-2008) Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; later Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany Obituary |
![]() Stefanie Jacomet Universität Basel, Integrative Prähistorische und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie Basel, Switzerland |
![]() Glynis E. M. Jones University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology Sheffield, England, UK |
![]() Mordechai E. Kislev Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Life Sciences Ramat-Gan, Israel |
![]() Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Kiel, Germany |
![]() Klaus Oeggl Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Botanik Innsbruck, Austria |
David Earle Robinson | ![]() Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic |
![]() Krystyna Wasylikowa Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera Kraków, Poland |
![]() (1924-2016) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut Groningen, The Netherlands Obituary |
Founding Members
Karl-Ernst Behre, Maria Hopf, and Willem Van Zeist wrote and signed the “constitutional documents” of today’s IWGP during the first conference in 1968, and are thus considered the first Committee Members. Zdeněk Tempír initiated the first conference, and thus the IWGP.
Background image: Charred cultivated plant remains from Fuente Álamo (prov. Almería, Spain), Bronze Age El Argar culture © Hans-Peter Stika