Computational Archaeology
Sophie Schmidt M.A.
Office Hours: by appointment
Office: 214
Tel.: +49-(0)221-470 5396
Email: s.c.schmidtuni-koeln.de
Research Interests
- Settlement archaeology in middle Germany
- Neolithisation of Europe
- Quantitative and geostatistical methods in archaeology
Detailed information
Curriculum Vitae
- born 1987
- Oct. 2008 – Sept. 2011Bachelor's course in Ancient Studies, main subject Prehistoric Archaeology, at the Free University Berlin
- July 2011 Bachelor's thesis "Die Keramikgruppe La Hoguette" (The ceramic group La Hoguette)
- Oct. 2011 – April 2016 Master's course in Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University Berlin
- March 2016 Master's thesis „Siedlungsarchäologie auf Befundebene – Untersuchungen zu Standortfaktoren und Besiedlungsdichte in einem Transsekt im Mittelelbe-Saale-Gebiet“ („Settlement Archaeology on Feature Level – Analyses of Site Parameters and Settlement Density in a Transect in the Area of Middle Elbe and Saale“)
- March 2010 – March 2011 Student assistant in the Göbekli Tepe/Urfa-Project of the German Archaeological Institute with Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmidt
- Oct. 2011 – Sept. 2013 2012 Student assistant of Undine Lieberwirth at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI in the department „GIS and Databases“
- Oct. 2013 – Setp. 2014 Mentor at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Free University Berlin
- Oct. 2013 – Febr. 2016 Tutor at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology of the Free University Berlin
- Febr. 2014 – Aug. 2015 Organisation of the job fair for archaeologists Archaeoworks³ and the workshop seminar Archaeoskills⁵ (8.-10.05.2015)
- Sept. 2015 – Dec. 2015 Student assistant in the Ber(li)ner Digital Pantheon Project at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI
- Oct. 2015 – Jan. 2016 Student assistant in the Merimde Beni Salama-Project „Neolithisation of the Nile Delta“ at the Excellence Cluster TOPOI
- since April 2016 Research fellow in ArchaeoInformatics at the University of Cologne
Publications and Presentations
- 07.02.2015 talk: „Siedlungsarchäologie auf Befundebene – work in progress“ at the 6th Workshop of the German CAA chapter in Dresden, Germany
- 24.11.2016 talk: "What happens if... Inter-site Settlement Analysis Based on Features" at the Joint Chapters Meeting of the CAA Netherlands/Flanders and the CAA Germany in Ghent, Netherlands
- 10./11.2.2017 Poster: "Ebenen der Analyse im Vergleich: Fundstellen und Befunde" at the 7th Workshop of the AG CAA in Heidelberg, Germany
- 21.03.2018 talk: B. Marwick / S. C. Schmidt, "Reproducible research in archaeology using R & rrtools" in the session "S34 R as an archaeological tool: current state and directions" at the international CAA conference in Tübingen, Germany
- 22.03.2018 talk: "Site definition possibilities: Features excavated along a transect" (Code of statistical analysis online) in the session "S28 Cities of Data: computational and quantitative advances to urban research" at the international CAA conference in Tübingen, Germany
- M. Nieberle, P. Hartmann, F. Askin, S. Moshfegh-Nia, S. C. Schmidt, Die Angelburg in Tussenhausen – geophysikalische Prospektionen eines Burgstalls in Mittelschwaben. Bayerische Archäologie 2018/3, 10-15.
- preprint: B. Marwick / S. C. Schmidt, Tool-driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science, SocArXiv, 5. Jan. 2019, doi:10.31235/osf.io/4nkxv .
- paper in prep.: S. Hageneuer / S. C. Schmidt, Monumentality by Numbers, in: Buccelati et al. (Hrsg.), Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality across ancient Civilizations (transcript-Verlag Bielefeld 2019). Code and data available at doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/3AJ7V.