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The aims of the AG CAA study group’s meetings: * to foster communication between archaeologists using quantitative methods or computer based methods of analysis * to develop links between archaeologists and mathematicians/statisticians. Further development is gained by seeking numerical approaches to complex historical problems To fullfil these aims the AG CAA study group meets at the archaeological congresses of the Deutschen Altertumsverbände as well as at the statistical congresses of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl). The AG CAA study group grew out of several independent traditions: In Western Germany prehistorians formed in 1981 a group called Quantitative Archäologie, while in the former GDR egyptologists and meriotisticians were especially active after 1982. The AG CAA recently changed its name from Arbeitsgemeinschaft Quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie bei den Altertumsverbänden / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Archäologie bei der GfKl to Arbeitsgemeinschaft Computeranwendungen und quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie (AG CAA).