This year’s Deutscher Archäologie-Kongress (DAK) will take place digitally for the first time from 21–24 September 2020. Following the slogan “Horizons”, the Archaeological State Department of Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology of Kiel University, the Archaeology Museum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig and the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) invite archaeologists from Germany, Europe and the world to expand and create new perspectives on the past for the future. Attendance is free of charge for all participants.

Kiel is represented at the DAK 2020 by the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS as well as by the CRC 1266. Both present their research projects in a session on Monday, September 21. The lectures of the ROOTS cluster include its wide range of different projects and disciplines and focus on connectivity in prehistoric societies. Among others, they cover topics such as Ethnoarchaeology in Eurasia, perspectives in Archaeoinformatics, and Conflict Studies. On Monday afternoon, researchers of the CRC 1266 “Scales of Transformation” will present no less exciting results and projects.

The keynote lecture will also be held digitally by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Claus von Carnap-Bornheim (Director of the Foundation of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Schloss Gottorf) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller (Speaker of the Excellence Cluster ROOTS, the CRC 1266 and the Johanna-Mestorf-Academy, Director of the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University). The title of the lecture is: “World Cultural Heritage and Cluster of Excellence: From Haithabu to Nagaland – New Horizons in Archaeology”. The scheduling of the keynote lecture will be announced later.

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