UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Ausbildung

• 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

Tätigkeiten

• Seit 12/2023 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, HESCOR (UzK)
• 2022 – 2023 Wissenschaftliche Referentin (LVR – Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege)
• 2021 – 2022 Vertretung der Institutsassistentin und Fachstudienberaterin (UzK)
• 2016, 2020 Elternteilzeit
• 2014 – 2021 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin SFB 806 (UzK)
• 2013 – 2014 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (UzK)
• 2012 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (Neanderthal Museum)
• 2009 – 2012 Promotionsstipendium (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 2005 – 2006 Jahresstipendium für ein Praxis- und Studienjahr im Ausland (DAAD)
• 2001 – 2008 Studentische Hilfskraft (UP, UzK

Projekte  

2023 – 2026

HESCOR - Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human & Earth System Coupled Research (https://hescor.uni-koeln.de/)

2022 - 2023

Schadenskataster Hochwasser 2021: Ein Schadenskataster für Bodendenkmäler in den Hochwassergebieten der Flut vom Juli 2021 im Rheinland

https://bodendenkmalpflege.lvr.de/de/projekte/schadenskataster_hochwasser_2021/schadenskataster_hochwasser_2021.html

2021

ARCAVE – constructing baselines of coastal ecosystem change from archaeological cave deposits

2017 – 2021

CRC 806 Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary.

Project E1 Phase 3: Population dynamics: Land use patterns of populations between the Upper Pleistocene and Middle Holocene in Europe and the Middle East.

2014 – 2017

At the margins of Late Pleistocene subcontinental networks – Interdisciplinary investigations of the cultural, chronological and environmental sequence of Pockenbank, Namibia

2014 – 2017

CRC 806 Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary.

Project E1 Phase 2: Demographic Changes of Hunter Gatherer Populations during the Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene in Europe.

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, Oxford: Hadrian Books. 206 S. ISBN: 978-1-4073-1470-9

Schmidt, I., J. Cascalheira, N. Bicho & G.-Ch. Weniger, eds. (2019) Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum: The Solutrean and its Neighbors. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing. 540 S. ISBN 978-1-5275-3848-1

editorial board member: Quartär: International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/qu/index

Peer reviewed articles

Boemke, B., A. Maier, I. Schmidt, W. Römer, F. Lehmkuhl (2023) Testing the representativity of Palaeolithic site distribution:  The role of sampling bias in the European Upper and Final Palaeolithic record. Quaternary Science Reviews 316: 108220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108220

Schmidt, I., G. Ossendorf, O. Bubenzer, F. Henselowsky, J. Luyt, J. Sealy, E. Hensel (2023) Pockenbank rock shelter, Namibia. 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. New York: Springer. 897-911. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2

Maier, A, I. Schmidt, A. Zimmermann (2022) A large-scale view on ‘small-scale societies’. In: Th. Widlok & D. Cruz (eds.) Scale Matters, The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality. Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld, 111–128. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6099-9, https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6099-9/scale-matters/

Maier, A, P. Ludwig, A. Zimmermann, I. Schmidt (2022) Ice Age’s sunny side – Solar insolation as potential long-term pacemaker for the demographic development in Europe between 43 and 15 ka ago. PaleoAnthropology Special Issue: The Impact of Upper Pleistocene Climatic and Environmental Change on Hominin Occupations and Landscape Use, Part 1. 35–51. https://doi.org/10.48738/2022.iss1.100

Klein, K., C. Wegener, I. Schmidt, M. Rostami, P. Ludwig, S. Ulbrich, G.-Ch. Weniger, Y. Shao (2021) Human Existence Potential in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International 581-582: 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.046

Scharl, S., W. Amelung, B. Bömke, R. Gerlach, F. Lauer, F. Lehmkuhl, E. Lehndorff, A. Maier, I. Schmidt, S. Szya, A. Zimmermann (2021) Population dynamics, mobility and human-environment interaction from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic - a view from Central Europe to the world. In: Litt, Th., J. Richter, F.  Schäbitz (eds.) The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Stuttgart, Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Chapter 4: 153–204. ISBN 978-3-510-65534-2,

https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510655342/Litt_et_al_Eds_The_Journey_of_Modern?af=featured

Schmidt, I., B. Gehlen, A. Zimmermann (2021) Population estimates for the Final Palaeolithic (14,000 to 11,600 years cal. BP) of Europe – challenging evidence and methodological limitations. In Mevel, L., M.-J., Weber, A. Maier (eds.) En movement. Mobilités des hommes, des objets et des idées pendant le Paléolithique supérieur européen. Paris: Séances de la Société préhistorique française, 17: 221–237. ISBN: 2-913745-86-5

Schmidt, I., J. Hilpert, I. Kretschmer, R. Peters, M. Broich, S. Schiesberg, O. Vogles, K.P. Wendt, A. Zimmermann, A. Maier (2021) Approaching prehistoric demography: proxies, scales and scopes of the Cologne protocol for the European context. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 376: 20190714. http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0714

Shao, Y., A. Hense, K. Klein, P. Ludwig, A. Maier, J. Richter, I. Schmidt, Ch. Wegener, G.-Ch. Weniger, A. Zimmermann (2021) Modelling Human Dispersal in Space and Time. In: Litt, Th., J. Richter, F.  Schäbitz (Hrsg.) The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Stuttgart, Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Chapter 4: 269–311. ISBN 978-3-510-65534-2,

https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510655342/Litt_et_al_Eds_The_Journey_of_Modern?af=featured

Shao, Y., H. Limberg, K. Klein, C. Wegener, I. Schmidt, G.-Ch. Weniger, A. Hense, M. Rostami (2021) Human-Existence Probability of the Aurignacian Techno-complex under Extreme Climate Conditions. Quaternary Science Reviews 263: 106995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106995

Willmes, C., K. Niedziółka, B. Serbe, S.B. Grimm, D. Groß, A. Miebach, M. Märker, F. Henselowsky, A. Gamisch, M. Rostami, A. Mateos, J. Rodríguez, H. Limberg, I. Schmidt, M. Müller, E. Hölzchen, M. Holthausen, K. Klein, C. Wegener, B. Weninger, T.K. Nielsen, T. Otto, G.-Ch. Weniger, O. Bubenzer, G. Bareth (2020) State of the Art in Paleoenvironment Mapping for Modeling Applications in Archeology – Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions from the PaleoMaps Workshop. Quaternary 3(2):13. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3020013

Zimmermann, A., S. Scharl, I. Schmidt (2020) Demographic transitions – cycles and mobility in the Neolithic of Western Germany. In: Lachenal, T., R. Roure, G. Lemmercier (eds.) Demography and migration. Population trajectories from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Proc. of the XVIIIth UISPP World Congress, 4–9 June 2018, Paris, France, Oxford: Archaeopress, S. 94–106. ISBN 978-1-78969-665-3, ISBN 978-1-78969-666-0

Schmidt, I. & A. Zimmermann (2019) Population dynamics and socio-spatial organization of the Aurignacian: Scalable quantitative demographic data for western and central Europe. PLoSONE 14(2):e0211562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211562

Schmidt, I., 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). http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/schmidt353

Maier, A., F. Lehmkuhl, P. Ludwig, M. Melles, I. Schmidt, Y. Shao, Ch. Zeeden & A. Zimmermann (2016) Demographic estimates of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe against the background of palaeoenvironmental data. Quaternary International 425: 49–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.009

Kretschmer, I. A. Maier & I. Schmidt (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. Bonn: Habelt, S. 47–58. ISBN: 978-3-7749-4022-2

Schmidt, I. (2015) Beyond Solutrean point types: technological organization and behavioral implications. Journal of Anthropological Research 71(4): 493–508. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44503947

Schmidt, I. & V. Mom (2015) Shape and technological organization of lithic Solutrean points from Iberia: A computational approach for exploring the diversity of shapes. In: A. Traviglia (ed.): Across Space and Time. Selected Papers from the 41^st Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, S. 475–481. http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31835

Peresani M., M. Romandini, R. Duches, C. Jéquier, N. Nannini, A. Pastoors, A. Picin, I. Schmidt, M. Vaquero, & G.-Ch. Weniger (2014) New evidence for the Mousterian and Gravettian at Rio Secco Cave, Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology 39(4): 401–416. https://doi.org/10.1179/0093469014Z.00000000098

Gerlach, R., A. Hilgers, I. Kretschmer, I. Medved, M. Schlummer, I. Schmidt, Y. Tafelmaier & Ch. Vieth (2012) Frauen in GeoArchäologischer Forschung in Deutschland. Archäologische Informationen 35: 11–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/ai.2012.0

Peresani, M., A. Pastoors, M. Vaquero, M. Romandini, R. Duches, C. Jequier, N. Nannini, A. Picin, I. Schmidt & G.-Ch. Weniger (2012) The North Adriatic Region, a key context for investigating the Neanderthal demise. Antiquity 86. (Project Gallery).

Schmidt, I., M. Bradtmöller, M. Kehl, A. Pastoors, Y. Tafelmaier, B. Weninger & G.-Ch. Weniger (2012) Rapid climate change and variability of settlement patterns in Iberia during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary International 274: 179–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.018

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. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43135535

Other publications

Koppmann, C., D. Riemenschneider, I. Schmidt, S. Sonntag, H. Witte, M. Zeiler (2024): Die Flut in Nordrhein-Westfalen und ihre Folgen. Archäologie in Deutschland 1: 48-51.

Koppmann, C., I. Schmidt, H. Witte (2023): Erste Ergebnisse des Projektes „Schadenskataster Hochwasser 2021“, Archäologie im Rheinland 2022, Oppenheim: 13-14.

Einwögerer, Th., I. Schmidt & A. Maier (2023): Fast wären wir in Europa wieder ausgestorben! Die große demographische Krise im Letzten Glazialen Maximum. Archäologie in Deutschland 2: 36-37.

Schmidt, I. & A. Zimmermann (2018) Extrem geringe Bevölkerungsdichten und unbesiedelte Regionen: Forschungen zu den Populationsdynamiken unserer Vorfahren. Forschungen 2018/2019 Projekte der Philosopischen Fakultät. Universität zu Köln.

Schmidt, I. & O. Bubenzer (2017) Am Rande der Namib-Wüste: Neue geoarchäologische Untersuchungen zur Besiedlungsgeschichte des südlichen Namibia. Heinrich-Barth Kurier 17(1): 8–14.

Schmidt, I., A. Maier & I. Kretschmer (2016) Ist da draußen jemand? Zur Bevölkerungsdichte der letzten Eiszeit. Archäologie in Deutschland 3: 32–33.

Schmidt, I., 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.

Schmidt, I. (2015) At the Margins of Late Pleistocene Subcontinental Networks: Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Cultural, Chronological and Environmental Sequence of Pockenbank, Namibia. Forschungen 2015/2016 Projekte der Philosopischen Fakultät. Universität zu Köln, 52–53.

Menéndez Fernández, M., G-Ch. Weniger, D. Álvarez-Alonso, M. de Andrés-Herrero, E. García, J. Jordá Pardo, M. Kehl, J. Rojo, J. M. Quesada & I. Schmidt (2014) La cueva de La Güelga. Cangas de Onís. Asturias. In: R. Sala Ramos (ed.): Los cazadores recolectores del Pleistoceno y del Holoceno en Iberia y el Estrecho de Gibraltar: estado actual del conocimiento del registro arqueológico, S. 60–63.

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. Mettmann: Neanderthal Museum, S. 71–83.

Schmidt, I. & V. Mom (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, Faro. Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. I. Faro: Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), S. 39–46.

Schmidt, I. & Y. Tafelmaier (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, Faro. Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. II. Faro: Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), S. 151–152.

Tafelmaier, Y. & I. Schmidt (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, Faro. Promontoria Monográfica 16, Vol. II. Faro: Núcleo de Arqueologia e Paleoecologia (NAP), S. 153–159.

• Heinrich Barth-Institut e.V. für Archäologie und Umweltgeschichte Afrikas, Köln
• Hugo-Obermaier-Gesellschaft – für Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit e.V.