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.

Rotating Committee Members
(Early Career Scientists)

Sonja Filatova Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Faculteit der Letteren Groningen, The Netherlands

Michaela Ptaková Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Laboratoř archeobotaniky a paleoekologie (LAPE) České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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	Karl-Ernst Behre Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung Wilhelmshaven, Germany	Maria Hopf † (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	Helmut Kroll 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	Zdeněk Tempír Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic
Krystyna Wasylikowa Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera Kraków, Poland	Willem Van Zeist † (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.

Karl-Ernst Behre Niedersächsisches Institut für historische Küstenforschung Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Maria Hopf † (1914-2008) Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; later Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany Obituary

Zdeněk Tempír Národní zemědělské muzeum Praha, Czech Republic

Willem Van Zeist † (1924-2016) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut Groningen, The Netherlands Obituary