Professional and academic career
Research interests
African prehistory:
- Settlement structures and burials
Method:
- Portable XRF on soil samples
Regional specialization on West Africa, fieldwork in Nigeria.
Research projects (participation)
- DFG-long term research project: The Nigerian Nok Culture
Academic career
since 2015
Research assistant in the DFG long term research project: The Nigerian Nok Culture with dissertation project “Identification and interpretation of features of the Nigerian Nok Culture using pXRF”
2010-2015
Student research assistant in the Nok project, participation at the excavations in Nigeria and processing excavation data.
July 2014
Degree Magistra Artium (M.A.) in pre- and protohistory: Studien zur Struktur der Nok-Fundstelle Pangwari in Zentralnigeria anhand der Befunde und der Fundverteilung (Studies on the structure of the Nok Culture site Pangwari by analysing features and find distributions).
2008-2014
Studies in pre- and protohistory (major subject), archaeology and culture history of the Near Eastern and classical archaeology (minor subjects) at Goethe University Frankfurt.
2006-2008
Start of studies at the Heidelberg university in classical archaeology (major subject), geography, Indology, European art history (minor subjects).
Publications
Franke, G., Höhn, A., Schmidt, A., Ozainne, S., Breunig, P., Neumann, K. (submitted). Pits, Pots and Plants at Pangwari – Deciphering the Nature of a Nok Culture Site. Azania.
Höhn, A., Franke, G., Schmidt A. 2018. Pits at Pangwari. Charcoal taphonomy at a multi-phased Nok site, Central Nigeria. In: Mercuri, A.M., D'Andrea, A.C., Fornaciari, R., Höhn, A. (eds.): Plants and People in the African Past - Progress in African Archaeobotany. Cham (Springer Nature), 271-299. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1_14
Schmidt, A. 2016. Excavation 2016 and XRF Analysis at the Nok Site of Ido in Central Nigeria. Nyame Akuma 86, 65-70.
Schmidt, A. 2014. Studien zur Struktur der Nok-Fundstelle Pangwari in Zentralnigeria anhand der Befunde und der Fundverteilung. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. (http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41376)