
Dr. Ralf Vogelsang
Research associate
Bernhard-Feilchenfeld Str. 11
50969 Köln
Tel.: +49 221 470 6795
Email: r.vogelsang@uni-koeln.d
ORCID: 0000-0001-7280-5324
Current projects
- DFG-project CRC 806 “Our way to Europe”: A1 “Out of Africa – Late Pleistocene Rock Shelter Stratigraphies and Palaeoenvironments in Northeast Africa”
- DFG-project CRC 806 “Our way to Europe”: A3 “Ethiopian lakes – Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the source region of modern man.”
- FOR 2358: Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How humans benefited from and re-shaped African high altitude ecosystems during Quarternary climatic changes
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Archäologie Afrikas
- Ursprüne anatomisch moderner Menschen
- Ethonarchäologie
CV
since 2009
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Forschungsstelle Altsteinzeit und der Forschungsstelle Afrika der Universität zu Köln im Sonderforschungsbereich 806 "Our Way to Europe"
2008
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG-Projekt: "New Ages fpr the Middle Stone Age at Apollo 11, Namibia"
1998-2007
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich 389 "Arid climate, adaptation and cultural innovation in Africa" der Universität zu Köln
1993-1997
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich 268 "History of culture and language in the natural environment of the West-African savannah" an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Forschungsprojekt: Archaeological investigations in the Sahel-region of Northern Burkina Faso.
1991-1993
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Forschungsstelle Afrika der Universität zu Köln im Projekt "Archaeological map of Namibia" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem NAtional Monuments Council in Windhoek, Namibia.
1993
Promotion an der Universität zu Köln
1990
Magisterabschluss an derUniversität zu Köln
Monographs and Contributions
R. Vogelsang, The excavation of Stone Age sites. In: A. Livingstone Smith, E. Cornelissen, O. P. Gosselain, S. MacEachern (Hrsg.): Field Manual for African Archaeology. Edition: Online Series 'Documents on Social Science and Humanities' (Tervuren 2017) 105-109.
R. Vogelsang, B. Eichhorn, Under the Mopane Tree. Africa Praehistorica 24 (Köln 2011).
R. Vogelsang, Middle-Stone-Age-Fundstellen in Südwest-Namibia. Africa Praehistorica 11, (Köln 1998).
R. Vogelsang, B. Keding, Climate, culture and change: From hunters to herders in northeastern and southwestern Africa. In: M. O. Baldia, T. K. Pertulla, D. S. Frink, (Hrsg.): Comparative Archaeology and paleoclimatology (Oxford 2013) 43–62.
J. Peters, U. Dieckmann, R. Vogelsang, Losing the spoor: Hai||om animal exploitation in the Etosha region (Rahden/Westf. 2009) 103–185.
T. Lenssen-Erz, R. Vogelsang, Populating no-man's-land – Rock art in Northern Namibia. In: South African Archaeological Goodwin Series 9, 2005: 54–62.
R. Vogelsang, Rock Art in the Kaokoland? In: Heinrich-Barth-Institut (Hrsg.), Tides of the Desert – Gezeiten der Wüste. Contributions to the Archaeology and Environmental History of Africa in Honour of Rudolph Kuper. Africa Praehistorica 14 (Köln 2002) 535–548.
R. Vogelsang, Migration oder Diffusion? – Frühe Viehhaltung im Kaokoland. In: M. Bollig, E. Brunotte, Th. Becker (Hrsg.),Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Kultur- und Landschaftswandel in ariden und semiariden Nordwest Namibia, Kölner geographische Arbeiten 77 (Köln 2002) 137-144.
M. Bollig, R. Vogelsang, R., Naturraum und Besiedlungsgeschichte im Nordwesten Namibias. In: M. Bollig, E. Brunotte, Th. Becker (Hrsg.), Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Kultur- und Landschaftswandel in ariden und semiariden Nordwest Namibia, Kölner geographische Arbeiten 77 (Köln 2002) 145–158.
B. Eichhorn, R. Vogelsang, Vom Jäger-Sammler zum Hirten – Wirtschaftswandel im nordöstlichen und südwestlichen Afrika. In: B. Gehlen, M. Heinen und A. Tillmann (Hrsg.), Zeit-Räume. Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Taute. Archäologische Berichte 14, (Bonn 2001) 257–282.
K. Neumann, R. Vogelsang, Paléoenvironnement et préhistoire au Sahel du Burkina Faso. In: G. Nagel (Hrsg.), Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereiches 268, 7 (Frankfurt 1996) 177–186.
R. Vogelsang, The Middle Stone Age in south-western Namibia. In: G. Pwiti, R. Soper (Hrsg.), Aspects of African Archaeology. Papers from the 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies (Harare 1996) 207–213.
Articles
Schaebitz, F., Asrat, A., Lamb, H.F., Cohen, A.S., Foerster, V., Duesing, W., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Opitz, S., Viehberg, F.A., Vogelsang, R., Dean, J., Leng, M.J., Junginger, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Lane, C.S., Roberts, H.M., Vidal, C., Tiedemann, R. & M.H. Trauth (2021) Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 2, 123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00195-7
Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Eleanor M. L. Scerri, E.M.L., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F. & M.H. Trauth (2021) Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans. PNAS 118, 23. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018277118
E. A. Hensel, R. Vogelsang, T. Noack, O. Bubenzer, Stratigraphy and Chronology of Sodicho Rockshelter – A New Sedimentological Record of Past Environmental Changes and Human Settlement Phases in Southwestern Ethiopia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 2021, 8:611700. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.611700
C. Schepers, J. Lesur, R. Vogelsang, Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude Afromontane forest – the Holocene occupation of Mount Dendi, Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55, 3, 2020, 329-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2020.1792709
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, Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Science 365, 2019, 583–587.
E. A. Hensel, O. Bödeker, O. Bubenzer, R. Vogelsang, Combining geomorphological–hydrological analyses and the location of settlement and raw material sites – a case study on understanding prehistoric human settlement activity in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands. E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 68, 2019, 201–213. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-201-2019
D. Reber, M. Fekadu, F. Detsch, R. Vogelsang, T. Bekele, T. Nauss, G. Miehe, High-Altitude Rock Shelters and Settlements in an African Alpine Ecosystem: The Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Human Ecology 46, 2018, 587–600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-9999-5
R. Vogelsang, K. P. Wendt, Reconstructing prehistoric settlement models and land use patterns on Mt. Damota/SW Ethiopia. Quaternary International 485, 2018, 140-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.061
R. Vogelsang, O. Bubenzer, M. Kehl, S. Meyer, J. Richter, B. Zinaye, When Hominins Conquered Highlands—an Acheulean Site at 3000 m a.s.l. on Mount Dendi/Ethiopia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1, 2018, 302–313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-018-0015-9
S. Brandt, E. Hildebrand, R. Vogelsang, J. Wolfhagen, H. Wang, A new MIS 3 radiocarbon chronology for Mochena Borago Rockshelter, SW Ethiopia: Implications for the interpretation of Late Pleistocenechronostratigraphy and human behaviour. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 2017, 352–369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.013
R. F. Rifkin, L. C. Prinsloo, L. Dayet, M. M. Haaland, C. S. Henshilwood, E. L. Diz, S. Moyo, R. Vogelsang, F. Kambobo, Characterising pigments on 30 000-year-old portable art from Apollo 11 Cave, Karas Region, southern Namibia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 5, 2016, 336–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.028
V. Foerster, R. Vogelsang, A. Junginger, A. Asrat, H. F. Lamb, F. Schaebitz, M. H. Trauth, Reply to the comment on "Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129: 333-340". Quaternary Science Reviews, 141, 2016, 130-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.04.003
V. Foerster, R. Vogelsang, A. Junginger, A. Asrat, H. F. Lamb, F. Schaebitz, M. H. Trauth, Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129, 2015, 333-340. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.026
C. V. Murray-Wallace, J. Richter, R. Vogelsang, Aminostratigraphy and taphonomy of ostrich eggshell in the sedimentary infill of Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4, 2015, 143–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.006
J. Richter, Th. Hauck, R. Vogelsang, Th. Widlok, J.-M. Le Tensorer, P. Schmid, “Contextual areas” of early Homo sapiens and their significance for human dispersal from Africa into Eurasia between 200 ka and 70 ka. Quaternary International, 274, 2012, 5-24. https://doii.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.017
R. Vogelsang, J. Richter, Z. Jacobs, B. Eichhorn, V. Linsele, R. G. Roberts, New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits at Apollo 11 rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, archaeology, chronology and past environments. Journal of African Archaeology, 8, 2, 2010, 185–218.
S.A. Brandt, E. C. Fisher, E. A. Hildebrand, R. Vogelsang, S. H. Ambrose, J. Lesur, H. Wang, Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals. Quaternary International, 274, 2012, 38–54. https://doii.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.047
Z. Jacobs, R. G. Roberts, R. F. Galbraith, H. J. Deacon, R. Grün, A. Mackay, P. Mitchell, R. Vogelsang, L. Wadley, Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Bevavior and Dispersal. Science 322, 2008, 733–735.
R. Vogelsang, The past of the Etosha National Park - oral history and archaeological evidence. Nyame Akuma 63, 2005, 2–4.
R. Vogelsang, B. Eichhorn, J. Richter, Holocene occupation and vegetation history in northern Namibia. In: Die Erde 2000/2, 2002, 113–132.
T. Frank, P. Breunig, P. Müller-Haude, W. Van Neer, K. Neumann, R. Vogelsang, H.-P. Wotzka, The Chaîne de Gobnangou, SE Burkina Faso: archaeological, archaeobotanical archaeozoological and geomorphological studies. AVA-Beiträge 21, 2001, 127–190.
M. Albrecht, H. Berke, B. Eichhorn, Th. Frank, R. Kuper, S. Prill, R. Vogelsang, S. Wenzel, Oruwanje 95/1: a Late Holocene stratigraphy in north-western Namibia. Cimbebasia 17, 2001, 1–22.
R. Vogelsang, Archaeological investigations in the Kaokoland: Survey and excavations in 1999 and 2000. Nyame Akuma 54, 2000, 25–28.
R. Vogelsang, Archäologische Forschungen in der Sahel-Region Burkina Fasos – Ergebnisse der Grabungskampagnen 1994, 1995 und 1996. AVA-Beiträge 20, 2000, 173–203.
R. Vogelsang, K. D. Albert, S. Kahlheber, Le sable savant: les cordons dunaires sahéliens au Burkina Faso comme archive archéologique et paléoécologique du Holocéne. Sahara 11, 2000, 51–68.
R. Vogelsang, Archaeological survey in the Kaokoveld, Namibia. Nyame Akuma 50, 1998, 22–25.
R. Vogelsang, Etudes sur l'histoire de l'occupation de la région sahélienne du Burkina Faso – Rapport des recherches sur le terrain (année 1996). Nyame Akuma 47, 1997, 2–6.
R.. Vogelsang, Continuation des recherches archéologiques au nord du Burkina Faso – campagne de 1995. Nyame Akuma 46, 1996, 6–10.
R. Vogelsang, Recherches archéologiques concernant l'histoire de l'occupation de la région sahélienne au nord du Burkina Faso: Campagne de fouille de 1994. Nyame Akuma 44, 1995, 16–21.
R. Vogelsang, Projektbeschreibung: Archäologische Karte von Namibia. Archäologische Informationen 18/1, 1995, 41–43.
R. Vogelsang, Middle-Stone-Age-Fundstellen im Südwesten Namibias. Archäologische Informationen 18/1, 1995, 31–40.
Projects
- DFG-project CRC 389 “Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (ACACIA)”: B4 “Palaeoecology and the Late Holocene Occupation of Northern Namibia”