Bioarchaeology is the study of ancient human remains. The areas of study usually persued at UIndy are studies of burned human remains, Herculaneum project, and cut mark morphology. We also engage in bioarchaeological field work in Indiana when accidental discoveries or construction plans require the relocation of human skeletal remains.
Schmidt, C.W. (n.d.). Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling Bioarchaeology International. In Press.
Schmidt, C.W. and McDaniel, A. (2023) Applying Colorimetry to the Study of Low Temperature Thermal Changes in Bone. In: S. Ellingham, J. Adserias Garriga, D. Ubelaker, S. Casado-Zapico, eds., The Forensic Analysis of Burned Human Remains. New York: Wiley.
Zoeller, G., Drew, B., Schmidt, C.W., Peterson, R., Wilson, J.J. (2021). A Paleodemographic Assessment of Mortality and Fertility Rates during the Second Demographic Transition in Rural Central Indiana. American Journal of Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23571.
Carotenutoa G., Schmidt C.W., Viciano J., D'Anastasio R. (2019). Pseudopathological vertebral changes in a young individual from Herculaneum (79 C.E.). Anthropologischer Anzeiger DOI: 10.1127/anthranz/2019/0944.
Miller H.E., Schmidt C.W. (2018) Craniometric indicators of ancestry among French Americans. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 127, 97–106.
Moore CR, Schmidt CW. (2017). Abundance in the Archaic: A Dwelling Perspective. In, Abundance: The Archaeology of Plenitude. ML Smith (editor), University Press Colorado.
Schmidt CW. (2015). Estimating Age, Sex, and Individual ID from Teeth. In, A Companion to Dental Anthropology. Irish JD, Scott GR (eds). New York: Wiley-Liss.
Schmidt CW, Oakley E, D’Anastasio R, Brower R, Remy A, Viciano J. (2015). Herculaneum. In, Schmidt CW, Symes SA (eds) Analysis of Burned Human Remains, 2nd Edition. Academic Press: Orlando.
Schmidt CW, Osterholt AE. (2014). Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana. In, Violence and Warfare among Hunter Gatherers, eds. Mark W. Allen and Terry L. Jones. Left Coast Press: Walnut Creek, CA. 391 pp.
Bergman CA, Peres Lemons T, Schmidt CW. (2014). Scientific recovery investigations at the Kramer Mound (12Sp7): Prehistoric artifact assemblages, faunal and floral remains, and human osteology. Indiana Archaeology. 9:13-101.