UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

2019 – 2022

Research fellow at the DFG (German Research Foundation) Research Unit (RU) 2358 ‘The Mountain Exile Hypothesis’, Ethiopia, Project P1: “The making of a tropical alpine human environment” (University of Cologne)

2016 – 2019

Research fellow at the DFG RU 2358 ‘The Mountain Exile Hypothesis’, Project P1: “The making of a tropical alpine human environment” (UoC)

2015

Research fellow of UoC Postdoc Grant-project “At the Margins of Late Pleistocene Subcontinental Networks - Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Cultural, Chronological and Environmental Sequence of Pockenbank, Namibia” (UoC)

2014 – 2016

Research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa

2013

Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne (UoC). Dissertation: „Spätpleistozäne Jäger-Sammler des südwestlichen Namibias“

2010 – 2013

Research assistant at the DFG Collaborate Research Unit (CRC) 806 ‘Our way to Europe’, Project A1: “Out of Africa – late Pleistocene rock shelter stratigraphies in north-eastern Africa” (UoC)

2009

Magister Artium in Prehistoric Archaeology (UoC). Thesis: „N05/1 und N05/2 – Analyse und Vergleich des archäologischen Materials zweier holozäner Stratigraphien aus dem Nordwesten Namibias“

2007 – 2009

Freelance archaeologist (documentation) at the Jewish Museum/Archaeological Zone, City of Cologne

2005 – 2007

Research assistant at the DFG CRC 389 ‘Arid climate, adaptation and cultural innovation in Africa’, Project B4: “Palaeoecology and late Holocene occupation of northern Namibia”

G. Ossendorf, R. Vogelsang (accepted). Apollo 11, Namibia. In: A. Beyin, D. K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar, D. I. Olszewski (eds.) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

G. Ossendorf, M. G. Tekelemariam, J. Lesur, R. Vogelsang (accepted). Fincha Habera, Ethiopia. In: A. Beyin, D. K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar, D. I. Olszewski (eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

I. Schmidt, I., G. Ossendorf, O. Bubenzer, F. Henselowsky, J. Luyt, J. Sealy, E. Hensel (accepted) Pockenbank rock shelter, Namibia. In: A. Beyin, D. K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar, D. I. Olszewski (eds.) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

G. Ossendorf, A. R. Groos, T. Bromm, M. G. Tekelemariam, B. Glaser, J. Lesur, J. Schmidt, N. Akçar, T. Bekele, A. Beldados, S. Demissew, T. H. Kahsay, B. P. Nash, T. Nauss, A. Negash, S. Nemomissa, H. Veit, R. Vogelsang, Z. Woldu, W. Zech, L. Opgenoorth, G. Miehe (2019). Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Science 365(6453), 583–587. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6453/583.full.pdf

G. Ossendorf (2017) Technological analysis of Late Pleistocene Later Stone Age assemblages from Apollo 11 Rock Shelter, ǁKaras Region, Southwestern Namibia. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 72(205), 17–37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26407512?refreqid=excelsior%3Acb78eefb3ead2fb9512221655df865db

G. Ossendorf (2017) Two Holocene Later Stone Age stratigraphies from the Sesfontein area, northwestern Namibia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 52(2), 233–266. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2017.1296626

 I. Schmidt, G. Ossendorf, E. Hensel, O. Bubenzer, B. Eichhorn, L. Gessert, G. Gwasira, F. Henselowsky, E. Imalwa, M. Kehl, J. Rethemeyer, A. Röpke, J. Sealy, I. Stengel, M. Tusenius (2016) New investigations at the Middle Stone Age site of Pockenbank Rockshelter, Namibia. Antiquity 90(353). https://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/schmidt353

I. Schmidt, G. Ossendorf, A. Bolten, O. Bubenzer (2016) Human occupation in southern Namibia during the Late Pleistocene – A geoarchaeological approach. Quaternary International 404(B), 186–187. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215012586

G. Ossendorf (2015) Spätpleistozäne Jäger-Sammler des südwestlichen Namibia. PhD thesis, University of Cologne. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6636/

• DFG Research Unit 2358 - The Mountain Exile Hypothesis – how humans benefited from and re-shaped African high-altitude ecosystems during Quaternary climate changes
• At the margins of Late Pleistocene subcontinental networks – Interdisciplinary investigations of the cultural, chronological and environmental sequence of Pockenbank, Namibia
• ARCAVE – constructing baselines of coastal ecosystem change from archaeological cave deposits

SAfA – Society of Africanist Archaeologists

ASAPA – Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists

HBI – Heinrich-Barth-Institut e.V.