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Scientific Interests:

• Lithic Technology and Typology
• African Archaeology
• Palaeoenvironment
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Northeast Africa

Ph.D. Research Topic:

Palaeoenvironments, Land use and Dispersal Corridors of early Homo Sapiens in Northeast Africa

Supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Richter

Education:

10/2010 – 03/2014 B.A. Archaeology (Prehistory/Classical Archaeology), University of Cologne

B.A. Thesis: Die Obsidian-Werkzeuge aus dem Later Stone Age des ‘Dendi Lake – Rock Shelter‘ im Hochland von Äthiopien

04/2014 – 11/2016 M.A. Archaeology (Prehistory), University of Cologne

M.A. Thesis: Flächig bearbeitete Werkzeuge einer Acheuléen-zeitlichen Fundstelle aus dem Bilate Flussgebiet, Äthiopien

Research Assignments:

2012 – 2013 Excavation Assistant, Roemisch Germanisches Museum, Cologne

2014 – 2015 Student Assistant, CRC 806 – Our Way to Europe, Project A1

2015 – 2017 Scientific Assistant, CRC 806 – Our Way to Europe, Project A1

since 2018 PhD Student, CRC 806 – Our Way to Europe, Project A1

Field Work Abroad:

March – April 2012 Survey in Ethiopia at Chew Bahir, Omo Valley and the southwestern highlands

July – August 2012 Amiternum, an archaeological urban and regional study in the Central Abruzzi, Excavations and Geophysical Prospection, Italy

February 2013 Analysis of the lithic assemblage from Grubgraben, Krems, Austria

May 2012 Geophysical Prospection in the area of ancient town Amiternum, Italy

October – November 2013 Analysis of the lithic assemblage from the Dendi Lake Rock Shelter at the National Museum in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

February – March 2015 Excavations and Survey in the Ethiopian Highlands at the sites Sodicho Cave and Dendi Lake

June – July 2015 Geophysical Prospection in the course of the DFG Priority Program 1630 - Harbours: The river harbour of Ostia

January 2016 – April 2016 Second Excavation Campaign at Sodicho Cave, Ethiopia and analysis of a lithic assemblage from the Bilate River Basin at the National Museum in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

November 2017 Third Excavation Campaign at Sodicho Cave, Ethiopia

November 2017 Geoscientific survey of Sodmein Cave sorroundings, Egypt

March 2018 Analysis of lithic material from Sodmein Cave, Egypt

October 2018 - November 2018 Analysis of lithic material from Mochena Borago, Ethiopia and fourth Excavation Campaign at Sodicho Cave, Ethiopia

Professional Memberships:

• Society of Africanist Archaeologists
• Praehistorische Gesellschaft Koeln e.V.

Conference Talks/Posters:

SAfA 2018 Conference, Toronto:

Schepers, C. & Vogelsang, R: Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude afromontane forest: the late Holocene occupation of Mt. Dendi, Ethiopia

61st Annual Meeting of the Hugo Obermaier-Society 2019, Erkrath:

Schepers, C.: By the Rivers of Bilate – Twisted Bifaces from Ethiopia

Publications:

Christian Schepers, Joséphine Lesur & Ralf Vogelsang (2020) Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude Afromontane forest – the Holocene occupation of Mount Dendi, Ethiopia, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 55:3, 329-359, DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2020.1792709

Links:

• CRC 806 - R - A1 Project Blog