About ISHGR

The International Society for Hunter Gatherer Research (ISHGR) was established in 2014, with the main aim of promoting research and better knowledge about hunter-gatherer societies in the past and the present. The ISHGR is a legacy of 10th Conferences on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 10), convened by Larry Barham at the University of Liverpool in 2013, when the decision to found the Society was made in a plenary session.

ISHGR is the first ever formal network for scholars specialising in hunter-gatherer studies. One of its primary goals is to oversee the continuity of CHAGS. CHAGS 11 (2015) was the first conference of the ISHGR, convened to great success by Peter Schweitzer at the University of Vienna with Khaled Hakami as Conference Coordinator.