Studium

2013: Promotion in Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln: Solutrean Points of the Iberian Peninsula – Tool making and using behavior of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum.

2008: Magister in Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln: Technologische Analyse des Middle-Stone-Age-Inventars von Etemba 14 (Erongo/Namibia).

2002–2008: Universität zu Köln: Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte

2006: Universität Kapstadt: Archaeology, Historical Studies

2000–2002: Universität Paderborn: Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Philosophie, Kulturantropologie

Berufstätigkeit

Seit 2014: Projektleitung "At the margins of Late Pleistocene subcontinental networks" (UoC Postdoc Grant)

Seit 2014: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt E1 (SFB 806): Population Dynamics. Universität zu Köln

2013-2014: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln

2012: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Neanderthal Museum

2009–2012: Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2005-2006: Jahresstipendium des DAAD, University of Cape Town (Praxis- und Studienjahr)

Projekte

Population Dynamics: Demographic Changes of Hunter-Gatherer Populations during the Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene in Europe (SFB 806, Project E1)

At the Margins of Late Pleistocene Subcontinental Networks - Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Cultural, Chronological and Environmental Sequence of Pockenbank, Namibia

Monographien

SCHMIDT, I. 2015. Solutrean Points of the Iberian Peninsula. Tool making and using behaviour of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum. BAR International Series 2778, Hadrian Books: Oxford.

Artikel

KRETSCHMER, I., MAIER, A., SCHMIDT, I. (2016): Probleme und mögliche Lösungen bei der Schätzung von Bevölkerungsdichten im Paläolithikum. In: Kerig, T., K. Nowak, G. Roth, (eds.): Alles was zählt. Festschrift für Andreas Zimmermann. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 285, Bonn: Habelt: 47-57.

MAIER, A., F. LEHMKUHL, P. LUDWIG, M. MELLES, I. SCHMIDT, Y. SHAO, C. ZEEDEN, A. ZIMMERMANN (2016): Demographic estimates of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe against the background of palaeoenvironmental data. Quaternary International.

SCHMIDT I., OSSENDORF, G., HENSEL, E.A., BUBENZER, O., EICHHORN, B., GESSERT, L., GWASIRA, G., HENSELOWSKY, F., IMALWA, E., KEHL, M., RETHEMEYER, RÖPKE, A., SEALY, J., STENGEL, I., TUSENIUS, M. (2016): New investigations at the Middle Stone Age site of Pockenbank Rockshelter, Namibia. Antiquity+ 90 (353).

SCHMIDT, I.; OSSENDORF, G.; BOLTEN, A.; BUBENZER, O. (2016): Human occupation in southern Namibia during the Late Pleistocene – A geoarchaeological approach. Quaternary International 404(B): 186-187.

SCHMIDT, I.; MAIER, A.; KRETSCHMER, I. 2016. Ist da draußen jemand? Zur Bevölkerungsdichte der letzten Eiszeit. Archäologie in Deutschland 3, 32-33.

SCHMIDT, I. 2015. Beyond Solutrean point types: technological organization and behavioral implications. Journal of Anthropological Research 71(4): 493-508.

SCHMIDT, I. & MOM, V., 2015. Shape and technological organization of lithic Solutrean points from Iberia: A computational approach for exploring the diversity of shapes. In: Across space and time: Selected papers from the 41st Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (Perth), 475–481.

SCHMIDT, I., 2013. The Solutrean Concave Based Points from Northern Spain: Analysis of Production, Hafting, Maintenance and Recycling. In: PASTOORS, A. & AUFFERMANN, B. (eds.), Pleistocene foragers: Their culture and environment. Festschrift in honour of Gerd-Christian Weniger. Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, 71–83. 

GERLACH, R.; HILGERS, A.; KRETSCHMER, I.; MEDVED, I.; SCHLUMMER, M.; SCHMIDT, I.; Y. & VIETH, C., 2012. Frauen in GeoArchäologischer Forschung in Deutschland. Archäologische Informationen 35, 11–15.

PERESANI, M.; PASTOORS, A.; VAQUERO, M.; ROMANDINI, M.; DUCHES, R.; JÉQUIER, C.; NANNINI, N.; PICIN, A.; SCHMIDT, I. & WENIGER, G.-C., 2012. The North Adriatic Region, a key context for investigating the Neanderthal demise. Antiquity 86. (Project Gallery)

SCHMIDT, I.; BRADTMÖLLER, M.; KEHL, M.; PASTOORS, A.; TAFELMAIER, Y.; WENINGER, B. & WENIGER, G.-C., 2012. Rapid climate change and variability of settlement patterns in Iberia during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary International 274, 179–204. 

SCHMIDT I. & MOM, V., 2012. Computer-aided classification of archaeological objects – methodological issues in comparing shapes of Solutrean points. In: CASCALHEIRA, J. & GONÇALVES, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the IV Conference of Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica, Universidade do Algarve, Faro (Portugal). Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. I. Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), Faro, 39–46.

SCHMIDT, I. & TAFELMAIER, Y., 2012. Introduction to the Session: Food for Thoughts! Some Thoughts on Foods – Reconstructing Prehistoric Food Procurement. In: CASCALHEIRA, J. & GONÇALVES, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the IV Conference of Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica, Universidade do Algarve, Faro (Portugal). Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. II. Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), Faro, 151–152. 

TAFELMAIER, Y. & SCHMIDT, I., 2012. Remembering the invisible – blind spots in the reconstruction of food procurement. In: CASCALHEIRA, J. & GONÇALVES, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the IV Conference of Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica, Universidade do Algarve, Faro Portugal). Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. II. Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), Faro, 153–159. 

SCHMIDT, I., 2011. A Middle Stone Age Assemblage with Discoid Lithic Technology from Etemba 14, Erongo Mountains, Northern Namibia. Journal of African Archaeology 9 (1), 85–100. 

MAIER, A., F. LEHMKUHL, P. LUDWIG, M. MELLES, I. SCHMIDT, Y. SHAO, C. ZEEDEN, A. ZIMMERMANN (2016): Demographic estimates of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe against the background of palaeoenvironmental data. Quaternary International.

KRETSCHMER, I., MAIER, A., SCHMIDT, I. (2016): Probleme und mögliche Lösungen bei der Schätzung von Bevölkerungsdichten im Paläolithikum. In: Kerig, K. Nowak, G. Roth, (eds.): Alles was zählt. Festschrift für Andreas Zimmermann. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 285, Bonn: Habelt: 47-57.

SCHMIDT I., OSSENDORF, G., HENSEL, E.A., BUBENZER, O., EICHHORN, B., GESSERT, L., GWASIRA, G., HENSELOWSKY, F., IMALWA, E., KEHL, M., RETHEMEYER, RÖPKE, A., SEALY, J., STENGEL, I., TUSENIUS, M. (2016): New investigations at the Middle Stone Age site of Pockenbank Rockshelter, Namibia. Antiquity+ 90 (353).

SCHMIDT, I.; OSSENDORF, G.; BOLTEN, A.; BUBENZER, O. (2016): Human occupation in southern Namibia during the Late Pleistocene – A geoarchaeological approach. Quaternary International 404(B): 186-187.