Geoarchaeology, Micromorphology, Geochemistry, Quaternary Science

Regions: Namibia, Ethiopia

Schmidt, I., Ossendorf, G., Hensel, E., Bubenzer, O., Eichhorn, B., Gessert, L., Gwasira, G., Henselowsky, F., Imalwa, E., Kehl, M., Rethemeyer, J., Röpke, A., Sealy, J., Stengel, S., & Tusenius, M., (2016). New investigations at the Middle Stone Age site Pockenbank Rock Shelter, Namibia. Antiquity, Vol. 90, Issue. 353

Conference Contributions:

2016

Hensel, E.A., Kehl, M., Ossendorf, G., Schmidt I. (poster): The Late Pleistocene archaeological sequence at Pockenbank Rock Shelter, Namibia: First insights into site formation processes, 23^rd biennial SAfA meeting, Society of Africanist Archaeologists, Toulouse, France.

Hensel, E.A., Bubenzer, O., Kehl, M., Ossendorf, G., Schmidt I. (poster): At the desert’s margin: Site formation processes at the Late Pleistocene archaeological sequence of Pockenbank Rock Shelter; Inside-Outside-Workshop: Integrating Cave and Open-Air Archives, Cologne, Germany, 06-09.04.2016.

2015

Hensel, E.A., Bubenzer, O., Kehl, M., Schmidt I. (poster): Die Aussagekraft der Sedimente – Geoarchäologische Untersuchungsmethoden zur Sequenz des Pockenbank Rock Shelters, Namibia; Jahrestagung Geographischer Arbeitskreis Subsaharisches Afrika (AKSA), Cologne, Germany, 27.-28.11.2015.

Education:

2016    Master of Science “Quaternary Science and Geoarchaeology” at the University of Cologne

Thesis: Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen zur Genese der Sedimentabfolge des Middle & Early Later Stone Age im Pockenbank Rock Shelter, Südwest Namibia  

2013    Bachelor of Science “Geoscience” at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Thesis: Isotopengeochemische Untersuchungen an mitteldevonischen Brachiopoden des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges.

Academic Professional Experience:

since 2017      Research assistant, Graduate School of Geosciences, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne (working group: Prof. Dr. Olaf Bubenzer, Arbeitsgruppe Quartärforschung und angewandte Geomorphologie - Abteilung für Afrikaforschung)

2016                Research assistant, Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne (working group: Dr. Isabell Schmidt, Pockenbank Project, Namibia)

2015 - 2016    Student research assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne (working group ofDr. Isabell Schmidt, Pockenbank Project, Namibia)

2014 - 2016    Student research assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne (working group of PD Dr. M. Kehl, Project C1 at the CRC 806 "Our Way to Europe")

AK Geoarchäologie

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung e.V. (DEUQA)