D N Schmitt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D N Schmitt |
| PRENOMES | D N |
| SOBRENOME | Schmitt |
| ASSINATURA | SCHMITT D N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1296-4117 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 487 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests
Wildlife contributes to the diets, livelihoods and socio-cultural activities of people worldwide; however, unsustainable hunting is a major pressure on wildlife. Regional assessments of the factors associated with hunting offtakes are needed to understand the scale and patterns of wildlife exploitation relevant for policy. We synthesized 83 studies across West and Central Africa to identify the factors associated with variation in offtake. Our mo…
Forager and food producer interrelationships in the zooarchaeological record
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community
We repurpose multidecadal ethnoarchaeological investigations of human hunting, prey availability, and socioeconomics in a rural Central African Republic village in the service of human ecology. Focusing on forest foragers in the village of Grima, initial 1999-2005 (Old Grima) data collection included documentation of hunting technology and offtakes, identification of wild meat bone assemblages, inventories of household material goods, and measure…
Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change
In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships. While the timing of the emergence of these interrelationships is unknown, forest forager-farmer interactions are rarely considered as a process of cultural or ecological change in the archeological record of Central Africa. Here we argue that Central African prehist…
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions
The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical rationales, are often used as proxy evidence to support the view that ancient humans regularly and efficiently targeted large-sized proboscideans to the point of extinction. This paper examines the socioeconomic and technological contexts of elephant hunting in contemporary and …
New Holocene Radiocarbon Dates from the Heart of the Sangha River Interval, Southwestern Central African Republic
Radiocarbon assay of charcoal from four sites in Nola, Central African Republic, provide new age estimates from the Sangha River Interval and doubles the number of radiocarbon dates from the center of this important and controversial biogeographical tract. The new age estimates mark the occupation of a village ~575 cal BP , two iron-smelting events about 1550 cal BP , and a ~2750–2520 cal BP iron production feature that represents one of the earl…
The Floating Island Cave mammals
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge
Limited excavations at Nangara-Komba Shelter along the northern margin of the Congo Basin have recovered evidence for intermittent and at times intensive human visits beginning approximately 5100 cal. BC. Numerous rock art panels adorn the shelter’s walls and ceramics appear to have initially been brought to the site between 1050 and 900 cal. BC, if not earlier. Charred Canarium schweinfurthii endocarp fragments were collected in all stratigraphi…
Size matters only sometimes
An elusive record further exposed
Recently, Lupo et al. (2015, 2018) reported novel data on the nature and timing of late Holocene human settlement and iron production in the northern Congo Basin rain forest, southern Central African Republic. This paper expands those data by presenting new archaeological and chronological information discovered in field investigations conducted in 2017–2018. Twenty-five archaeological sites were identified and radiocarbon dates from 14 signal hu…
Stable isotope ratio analysis (C, N, S) of hair from modern humans in Ethiopia shows clear differences related to subsistence regimes
The incredible edible hare
Hares (Lepus spp) have been common residents of Great Basin valley bottoms and piedmonts throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Although their skeletal remains often dominate regional zooarchaeological collections and ethnographic records across the American West detail the importance of Lepus to native peoples, many studies of human subsistence productivity consider these mammals to be a low-ranked resource. We critique some methodologica…
An elusive record exposed
Archaeological surveys and excavations in the NGotto Forest Reserve, Central African Republic, discovered 98 artefact concentrations or cultural features that included ceramic scatters, iron-ore mines and iron smelting features. These investigations provide, for the first time, a series of radiocarbon dates that chronicle the timing and context of prehistoric occupation along the northern margin of the Congo Basin rain forest in the Central Afric…
How do Meat Scarcity and Bushmeat Commodification Influence Sharing and Giving among Forest Foragers? A View from the Central African Republic
On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States
Comparisons of Bonneville basin small-mammal skeletal assemblages from low-elevation caves with a collection from an upper piedmont rock shelter support Oviatt et al.’s hypothesis that early-Holocene moisture may have been the result of groundwater discharge rather than precipitation and runoff. After cool and moist late-Pleistocene environs were replaced by warmer and drier Holocene climates, low-elevation small-mammal communities increased in t…
When bigger is not better
The Bonneville Estates Rockshelter rodent fauna and changes in Late Pleistocene–Middle Holocene climates and biogeography in the Northern Bonneville Basin, USA
Excavations at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada recovered rodent remains from stratified deposits spanning the past ca. 12,500 14 C yr BP (14,800 cal yr BP). Specimens from horizons dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene include species adapted to montane and moist and cool habitats, including yellow-bellied marmot ( Marmota flaviventris ) and bushy-tailed woodrat ( Neotoma cinerea ). Shortly after 9000 14 C BP (10,200 cal yr BP)…
The Taphonomy of Resource Intensification
Do faunal remains reflect socioeconomic status? An ethnoarchaeological study among Central African farmers in the northern Congo Basin
Small prey hunting technology and zooarchaeological measures of taxonomic diversity and abundance
Late Pleistocene and early Holocene rivers and wetlands in the Bonneville basin of western North America
Field investigations at Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah have produced new data on the chronology and human occupation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene lakes, rivers, and wetlands in the Lake Bonneville basin. We have classified paleo-river channels of these ages as “gravel channels” and “sand channels.” Gravel channels are straight to curved, digitate, and have abrupt bulbous ends. They are composed of fine gravel and coarse sand, and…
Small-Mammal Data on Early and Middle Holocene Climates and Biotic Communities in the Bonneville Basin, USA
Archaeological investigations in Camels Back Cave, western Utah, recovered a series of small-mammal bone assemblages from stratified deposits dating between ca. 12,000 and 500 14 C yr B.P. The cave's early Holocene fauna includes a number of species adapted to montane or mesic habitats containing grasses and/or sagebrush (e.g., Lepus townsendii, Marmota flaviventris, Reithrodontomys megalotis, and Brachylagus idahoensis ) which suggest that the r…
Upper Paleolithic Net-Hunting, Small Prey Exploitation, and Women's Work Effort
Mass Collecting and the Diet Breadth Model
On Mammalian Taphonomy, Taxonomic Diversity, and Measuring Subsistence Data in Zooarchaeology
This paper examines the application of mammalian taxonomic diversity measures in the analysis of human subsistence. Employing qualitative and quantitative taphonomic analyses on archaeofaunas recovered from a sheltered Fremont site in Utah, numerous small- and medium-sized animal bones (especially Leporidae) are identified as nonhuman accumulations. Measures of taxonomic diversity for the shelter's entire assemblage suggest that the inhabitants p…
Mass Collecting and the Diet Breadth Model
Small prey hunting technology and zooarchaeological measures of taxonomic diversity and abundance
Toward the Identification of Coyote Scatological Faunal Accumulations in Archaeological Contexts
Upper Paleolithic Net-Hunting, Small Prey Exploitation, and Women's Work Effort
On Mammalian Taphonomy, Taxonomic Diversity, and Measuring Subsistence Data in Zooarchaeology
This paper examines the application of mammalian taxonomic diversity measures in the analysis of human subsistence. Employing qualitative and quantitative taphonomic analyses on archaeofaunas recovered from a sheltered Fremont site in Utah, numerous small- and medium-sized animal bones (especially Leporidae) are identified as nonhuman accumulations. Measures of taxonomic diversity for the shelter's entire assemblage suggest that the inhabitants p…
The Taphonomy of Resource Intensification
Size matters only sometimes
Not by bones alone
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge
Limited excavations at Nangara-Komba Shelter along the northern margin of the Congo Basin have recovered evidence for intermittent and at times intensive human visits beginning approximately 5100 cal. BC. Numerous rock art panels adorn the shelter’s walls and ceramics appear to have initially been brought to the site between 1050 and 900 cal. BC, if not earlier. Charred Canarium schweinfurthii endocarp fragments were collected in all stratigraphi…
Stable isotope ratio analysis (C, N, S) of hair from modern humans in Ethiopia shows clear differences related to subsistence regimes
Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change
In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships. While the timing of the emergence of these interrelationships is unknown, forest forager-farmer interactions are rarely considered as a process of cultural or ecological change in the archeological record of Central Africa. Here we argue that Central African prehist…
An elusive record exposed
Archaeological surveys and excavations in the NGotto Forest Reserve, Central African Republic, discovered 98 artefact concentrations or cultural features that included ceramic scatters, iron-ore mines and iron smelting features. These investigations provide, for the first time, a series of radiocarbon dates that chronicle the timing and context of prehistoric occupation along the northern margin of the Congo Basin rain forest in the Central Afric…
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions
The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical rationales, are often used as proxy evidence to support the view that ancient humans regularly and efficiently targeted large-sized proboscideans to the point of extinction. This paper examines the socioeconomic and technological contexts of elephant hunting in contemporary and …
An elusive record further exposed
Recently, Lupo et al. (2015, 2018) reported novel data on the nature and timing of late Holocene human settlement and iron production in the northern Congo Basin rain forest, southern Central African Republic. This paper expands those data by presenting new archaeological and chronological information discovered in field investigations conducted in 2017–2018. Twenty-five archaeological sites were identified and radiocarbon dates from 14 signal hu…
On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States
Comparisons of Bonneville basin small-mammal skeletal assemblages from low-elevation caves with a collection from an upper piedmont rock shelter support Oviatt et al.’s hypothesis that early-Holocene moisture may have been the result of groundwater discharge rather than precipitation and runoff. After cool and moist late-Pleistocene environs were replaced by warmer and drier Holocene climates, low-elevation small-mammal communities increased in t…
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community
We repurpose multidecadal ethnoarchaeological investigations of human hunting, prey availability, and socioeconomics in a rural Central African Republic village in the service of human ecology. Focusing on forest foragers in the village of Grima, initial 1999-2005 (Old Grima) data collection included documentation of hunting technology and offtakes, identification of wild meat bone assemblages, inventories of household material goods, and measure…
The Floating Island Cave mammals
Not by bones alone
Toward the Identification of Coyote Scatological Faunal Accumulations in Archaeological Contexts
On Mammalian Taphonomy, Taxonomic Diversity, and Measuring Subsistence Data in Zooarchaeology
This paper examines the application of mammalian taxonomic diversity measures in the analysis of human subsistence. Employing qualitative and quantitative taphonomic analyses on archaeofaunas recovered from a sheltered Fremont site in Utah, numerous small- and medium-sized animal bones (especially Leporidae) are identified as nonhuman accumulations. Measures of taxonomic diversity for the shelter's entire assemblage suggest that the inhabitants p…
Mass Collecting and the Diet Breadth Model
Small-Mammal Data on Early and Middle Holocene Climates and Biotic Communities in the Bonneville Basin, USA
Archaeological investigations in Camels Back Cave, western Utah, recovered a series of small-mammal bone assemblages from stratified deposits dating between ca. 12,000 and 500 14 C yr B.P. The cave's early Holocene fauna includes a number of species adapted to montane or mesic habitats containing grasses and/or sagebrush (e.g., Lepus townsendii, Marmota flaviventris, Reithrodontomys megalotis, and Brachylagus idahoensis ) which suggest that the r…
Upper Paleolithic Net-Hunting, Small Prey Exploitation, and Women's Work Effort
Late Pleistocene and early Holocene rivers and wetlands in the Bonneville basin of western North America
Field investigations at Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah have produced new data on the chronology and human occupation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene lakes, rivers, and wetlands in the Lake Bonneville basin. We have classified paleo-river channels of these ages as “gravel channels” and “sand channels.” Gravel channels are straight to curved, digitate, and have abrupt bulbous ends. They are composed of fine gravel and coarse sand, and…
Small prey hunting technology and zooarchaeological measures of taxonomic diversity and abundance
Do faunal remains reflect socioeconomic status? An ethnoarchaeological study among Central African farmers in the northern Congo Basin
The Bonneville Estates Rockshelter rodent fauna and changes in Late Pleistocene–Middle Holocene climates and biogeography in the Northern Bonneville Basin, USA
Excavations at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada recovered rodent remains from stratified deposits spanning the past ca. 12,500 14 C yr BP (14,800 cal yr BP). Specimens from horizons dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene include species adapted to montane and moist and cool habitats, including yellow-bellied marmot ( Marmota flaviventris ) and bushy-tailed woodrat ( Neotoma cinerea ). Shortly after 9000 14 C BP (10,200 cal yr BP)…
The Taphonomy of Resource Intensification
When bigger is not better
How do Meat Scarcity and Bushmeat Commodification Influence Sharing and Giving among Forest Foragers? A View from the Central African Republic
On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States
Comparisons of Bonneville basin small-mammal skeletal assemblages from low-elevation caves with a collection from an upper piedmont rock shelter support Oviatt et al.’s hypothesis that early-Holocene moisture may have been the result of groundwater discharge rather than precipitation and runoff. After cool and moist late-Pleistocene environs were replaced by warmer and drier Holocene climates, low-elevation small-mammal communities increased in t…
The incredible edible hare
Hares (Lepus spp) have been common residents of Great Basin valley bottoms and piedmonts throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Although their skeletal remains often dominate regional zooarchaeological collections and ethnographic records across the American West detail the importance of Lepus to native peoples, many studies of human subsistence productivity consider these mammals to be a low-ranked resource. We critique some methodologica…
An elusive record exposed
Archaeological surveys and excavations in the NGotto Forest Reserve, Central African Republic, discovered 98 artefact concentrations or cultural features that included ceramic scatters, iron-ore mines and iron smelting features. These investigations provide, for the first time, a series of radiocarbon dates that chronicle the timing and context of prehistoric occupation along the northern margin of the Congo Basin rain forest in the Central Afric…
An elusive record further exposed
Recently, Lupo et al. (2015, 2018) reported novel data on the nature and timing of late Holocene human settlement and iron production in the northern Congo Basin rain forest, southern Central African Republic. This paper expands those data by presenting new archaeological and chronological information discovered in field investigations conducted in 2017–2018. Twenty-five archaeological sites were identified and radiocarbon dates from 14 signal hu…
Stable isotope ratio analysis (C, N, S) of hair from modern humans in Ethiopia shows clear differences related to subsistence regimes
Size matters only sometimes
The Floating Island Cave mammals
Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge
Limited excavations at Nangara-Komba Shelter along the northern margin of the Congo Basin have recovered evidence for intermittent and at times intensive human visits beginning approximately 5100 cal. BC. Numerous rock art panels adorn the shelter’s walls and ceramics appear to have initially been brought to the site between 1050 and 900 cal. BC, if not earlier. Charred Canarium schweinfurthii endocarp fragments were collected in all stratigraphi…
Recasting forest forager and food-producer population interaction as a pivotal prehistoric process of change
In the ethnographic and recent past, forested areas of West and Central Africa were populated by forest foragers and food producers who maintained multidimensional interrelationships. While the timing of the emergence of these interrelationships is unknown, forest forager-farmer interactions are rarely considered as a process of cultural or ecological change in the archeological record of Central Africa. Here we argue that Central African prehist…
Reframing Prehistoric Human-Proboscidean Interactions
The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly controversial. Ethnohistoric records of elephant hunting, in concert with theoretical rationales, are often used as proxy evidence to support the view that ancient humans regularly and efficiently targeted large-sized proboscideans to the point of extinction. This paper examines the socioeconomic and technological contexts of elephant hunting in contemporary and …
New Holocene Radiocarbon Dates from the Heart of the Sangha River Interval, Southwestern Central African Republic
Radiocarbon assay of charcoal from four sites in Nola, Central African Republic, provide new age estimates from the Sangha River Interval and doubles the number of radiocarbon dates from the center of this important and controversial biogeographical tract. The new age estimates mark the occupation of a village ~575 cal BP , two iron-smelting events about 1550 cal BP , and a ~2750–2520 cal BP iron production feature that represents one of the earl…
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community
We repurpose multidecadal ethnoarchaeological investigations of human hunting, prey availability, and socioeconomics in a rural Central African Republic village in the service of human ecology. Focusing on forest foragers in the village of Grima, initial 1999-2005 (Old Grima) data collection included documentation of hunting technology and offtakes, identification of wild meat bone assemblages, inventories of household material goods, and measure…
Geography (25 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 obras) · Archaeology (19 obras) · Biology (19 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 obras) · Ecology (17 obras) · Holocene (10 obras) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 obras) · Predation (9 obras) · Structural basin (8 obras)