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The AGER association was created in February 1991 to promote research in the field of rural archaeology and history of Roman Gaul, to enhance its image and to stimulate research in this field. To this end, it organises a Conference every two years, the proceedings of which are published. It has a blog which provides a means of spreading information and scientific news, as well as a collaborative space for archaeologists and historians working on the rural world of the Roman period in Gaul.
Link to the blog: https://ager.hypotheses.org/
In 2018, the General Assembly of the AGER association held in Dijon proposed to hold the 2022 Conference on the overall theme of “Villages and hamlets in the Roman period”, a decision that was ratified by its management in 2020. The last seven Conferences show the usual themes retained by the AGER association:
- The forms of Gallo-Roman rural habitat. Terminologies and typologies confronted to archaeological realities (2008).
- Rural landscapes and territories in the cities of the Roman West. Gallia and Hispania (2010).
- Consumption in the countryside of Roman Gaul (2012).
- Producing, transforming and storing in the Roman Gaulish countryside (2014).
- The exploitation of maritime resources in Antiquity. Productive activities and territorial organization (2016).
- Tools and movable equipment of agropastoral activities in Gaul (2018).
- Experimentation in archaeology (2021).
The XVth AGER Conference, which will take place in Saverne on 28th, 29th, 30th September and 1th October 2022, will deal with the theme “Villages and Hamlets in Gaul and neighbouring areas between the La Tène period and the end of the Roman period (3rd century BC - 6th century AD)”.
This meeting will address a thematic not yet widely addressed for the Roman period in Gaul and it will complement the elements and approaches developed in the framework of the AGER VII Conference: “The forms of Gallo-Roman rural habitat. Terminologies and typologies confronted to archaeological realities”.
Since the Antibes meeting in 2016, a session of the Conference has been devoted to current research on the rural world in Gaul in the Roman period. The AGER XVth Conference in Saverne will devote half a day to papers and posters presenting recent discoveries and research work.
Finally, this meeting will be the first AGER Conference to be held in Alsace. This region offers a rich archaeological context with well-recognised villages and hamlets methodically studied (Meyer and Nüsslein 2014; Nüsslein et al. 2020). In addition, the city of Saverne has a museum that houses collections from these sites, including the Wasserwald at Haegen which was interpreted as a hamlet as early as the 1980s.
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