Christopher W Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 88986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4911-0660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Funerary Veneration of Violated People in the Context of Costly Signaling
During the Middle and Late Archaic periods in Indiana, occasional violent interactions led to people being killed and their heads and/or forearms taken, a process often called trophy taking but here called intentional body part removal (IBPR). The IBPR victims were buried by their kin, whose funerary behaviors conveyed information to the community regarding the reinstatement of the deceased into the community despite having died violently. This k…
Characterizing variation in late precontact diets using dental microwear texture analysis: A Caborn-Welborn example
The Caborn-Welborn phase identifies late precontact and early postcontact (ca. AD 1400–1700) peoples of the lower Ohio River valley in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois who coalesced following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom. Our current understanding of Caborn-Welborn foodways is that they, like their contemporaries in other parts of eastern North America, subsisted largely on maize and wild game, supplemented by a wide range of other wild and …
The diet of young Neandertals from France, Pech de l’Azé I and Hortus II, reconstructed using dental microwear texture analysis
Les adultes néandertaliens présentent des différences de régime alimentaire en fonction de leur paléohabitat. Nous examinons si les jeunes enfants néandertaliens de France datant du stade isotopique marins 3 montrent également ces distinctions alimentaires à partir de l’étude de la texture des micro-usures dentaires des deuxièmes molaires déciduales des individus Pech de l’Azé I, datant d’une phase froide-tempérée, et Hortus II, datant d’une phas…
A paleodemographic assessment of mortality and fertility rates during the second demographic transition in rural central Indiana
OBJECTIVES: Since its inception, skeletally based paleodemographic research has emphasized the utility of biocultural models for interpreting the dynamic relationship between the sociocultural and ecological forces accompanying demographic transitions and shaping populations' health and well-being. While the demographic transition associated with the Neolithic Revolution has been a common focus in bioarcheology, the present study analyzes human s…
The Ice Age diet of the La Quina 5 Neandertal of southwest France
Reconstructing the Diet of Kůlna 1 from the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic)
Regional variability in diet between Northern European and Mediterranean Neandertals: Evidence from dental microwear texture analysis
Dental microwear texture analysis in bioarchaeology
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Transformation of Civil Rights
This article traces two genealogies of civil rights, one of a concept, the other a term. At the time of the drafting and ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the term civil rights became associated with a concept of rights that had featured in antebellum struggles over the place of free people of color in American society. Republican lawmakers turned to this newly essential term of racial governance to make the case that freedom required gov…
Rights, Dignity, and Public Accommodations
In this essay I consider why debates over applying anti-discrimination norms to public accommodations have long been, and remain today, such a resilient presence in the history of the United States. I use as my starting point the most famous iteration of this phenomenon, the national debate sparked by the 1960 sit-in movement and culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodation…
Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists
OBJECTIVES: The current study seeks to determine if a sample of foragers, farmers, and pastoralists are distinguishable based on their dental microwear texture signatures. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included a sample of 719 individuals from 51 archeological sites (450 farmers, 192 foragers, 77 pastoralists). All were over age 12 and sexes were pooled. Using a Sensofar® white-light confocal profiler we collected dental microwear texture anal…
Pseudopathological vertebral changes in a young individual from Herculaneum (79 C.E)
alterations can be a challenging exercise even for the experienced paleopathologists and, as this case indicates, paleopathological diagnoses should be supported by detailed examinations.
Making Sense of the Messy Sixties: Introduction to a Review Symposium on Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation
This essay provides a summary and critical appraisal of Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s , a book that interweaves the stories of an eclectic cast of characters who were the targets of vagrancy law prosecutions with stories of the lawyers who challenged these prosecutions. In charting the demise of what she terms a “vagrancy law regime,” Goluboff provides insights on the major social…
Determining onset of significant facial pathology using dental wear and microwear texture analysis: A case study from the Middle Archaic (~5,500 BP) of Indiana
Paleopathologists face complicated presentations of osteological conditions that ac-crued over a considerable period of ill-health. Determining the relative sequence of symptoms and how long the individual lived with them is critical to understanding disease onset and progression in the body and may help to identify a specific disease. This paper describes an atypical presentation of the dentition associated with a 5,000-year-old case of treponem…
To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights
"To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(6), pp. 150–151
Symposium: How Law Works—Editor's Introduction
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Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
Risa Goluboff’s Vagrant Nation is a masterwork of legal history. The research alone is a remarkable achievement. The topic of the book, the demise of vagrancy laws in the 1960s and early 1970s, provides a wealth of fascinating material, but, as a subject of research, it is frightfully unwieldy. The regulations that constitute what Goluboff terms the “vagrancy law regime” came in many shapes and sizes, only some of them actually labeled vagrancy l…
Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana
In the archaeological record, trophy taking is the removal of body parts from living or recently deceased people. This phenomenon as it is expressed during the Middle and Late Archaic periods (MLAP) in the southern part of the state along the Ohio River; all of the sites are located either on the river or nearby on one of its small tributaries or sloughs. In southern Indiana, trophy taking tended to involve the removal of entire forearms and head…
Legal History and the Problem of the Long Civil Rights Movement
This essay offers a critical examination of use of the term “long civil rights movement” as a framework for understanding the legal history of the battle against racial inequality in twentieth-century America. Proponents of the long movement argue that expanding the chronological boundaries of the movement beyond the 1950s and 1960s allows scholars to better capture the diverse social mobilization efforts and ideas that fueled the black freedom s…
Deciduous enamel 3D microwear texture analysis as an indicator of childhood diet in medieval Canterbury, England
Beyond Backlash: Conservatism and the Civil Rights Movement
In this essay I argue for a reconsideration of the role of conservatives and conservative legal claims in the legal history of the civil rights movement. I do this through summaries of three interrelated topics, each of which I believe merit more careful scholarly attention. First, I consider the legal arguments and litigation tactics of conservatives who opposed the civil rights movement. Second, I examine underappreciated strains of conservatis…
Analysis of Burned Human Remains
Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana
Warhol’s Problem Project: The Time Capsules
This essay examines the split function of Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules as both research archive and unrealized art project. It suggests that the Time Capsules epitomize Warhol’s career-long preoccupation with consumption and waste (a concern animating much of his art production), and that the extreme materiality of the 610 Time Capsules is a complicated response to dematerialization in conceptual art practices and the post-war global economy. Fina…
Deciduous enamel 3D microwear texture analysis as an indicator of childhood diet in medieval Canterbury, England
On the relationship of dental microwear to dental macrowear
Dental microwear analysts have demonstrated that hard diets leave numerous microscopic pits on occlusal surfaces. The relationship between occlusal pitting and gross macrowear, however, is not well known. The current study seeks to elucidate the relationship between dental microwear and macrowear by determining if microscopically pitted teeth are associated with greater expressions of macrowear. This study examined microwear and macrowear on mand…
Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists
OBJECTIVES: The current study seeks to determine if a sample of foragers, farmers, and pastoralists are distinguishable based on their dental microwear texture signatures. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included a sample of 719 individuals from 51 archeological sites (450 farmers, 192 foragers, 77 pastoralists). All were over age 12 and sexes were pooled. Using a Sensofar® white-light confocal profiler we collected dental microwear texture anal…
Reconstructing the Diet of Kůlna 1 from the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic)
Determining onset of significant facial pathology using dental wear and microwear texture analysis: A case study from the Middle Archaic (~5,500 BP) of Indiana
Paleopathologists face complicated presentations of osteological conditions that ac-crued over a considerable period of ill-health. Determining the relative sequence of symptoms and how long the individual lived with them is critical to understanding disease onset and progression in the body and may help to identify a specific disease. This paper describes an atypical presentation of the dentition associated with a 5,000-year-old case of treponem…
Symposium: How Law Works—Editor's Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Divided by Law: The Sit-ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement
A central goal of the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the protests that launched the direct-action phase of the Civil Rights Movement, was to give new meaning to the very idea of “civil rights.” To the students who took part in the protests, civil rights work entailed litigation and lobbying. It required relying on the older generation of civil rights activists and working through established civil rights organizations. It meant surrendering stude…
Characterizing variation in late precontact diets using dental microwear texture analysis: A Caborn-Welborn example
The Caborn-Welborn phase identifies late precontact and early postcontact (ca. AD 1400–1700) peoples of the lower Ohio River valley in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois who coalesced following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom. Our current understanding of Caborn-Welborn foodways is that they, like their contemporaries in other parts of eastern North America, subsisted largely on maize and wild game, supplemented by a wide range of other wild and …
Legal History and the Problem of the Long Civil Rights Movement
This essay offers a critical examination of use of the term “long civil rights movement” as a framework for understanding the legal history of the battle against racial inequality in twentieth-century America. Proponents of the long movement argue that expanding the chronological boundaries of the movement beyond the 1950s and 1960s allows scholars to better capture the diverse social mobilization efforts and ideas that fueled the black freedom s…
Dental microwear evidence for a dietary shift between two nonmaize‐reliant prehistoric human populations from Indiana
Several recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of dental microwear analysis (DMA) for dietary reconstruction among nonhuman primates, early hominids, and prehistoric humans. The current study seeks microwear evidence for a paleobotanically suggested change in the types of foods that were consumed by two temporally distinct populations of the North American eastern woodlands. This particular dietary shift between the Late Archaic and the Ea…
Dental microwear evidence for a dietary shift between two nonmaize-reliant prehistoric human populations from Indiana
Several recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of dental microwear analysis (DMA) for dietary reconstruction among nonhuman primates, early hominids, and prehistoric humans. The current study seeks microwear evidence for a paleobotanically suggested change in the types of foods that were consumed by two temporally distinct populations of the North American eastern woodlands. This particular dietary shift between the Late Archaic and the Ea…
The Analysis of Burned Human Remains
The Waste-Management Poetics of Kenneth Goldsmith
For those who follow closely contemporary American poetry scene, perhaps no recent figure has made a greater intervention in received ideas of poetic excellence than Kenneth Goldsmith. This self-described conceptual has managed to become the most critically well inspected writer now under age of 50 in United States by ceding all claims to authorial originality and practicing instead a procedural, quasi-robotic poetics.1 Warhol famously declared, …
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Organic Technologies: A Review and Analysis
A literature review indicates that many Paleoindian and Early Archaic bone, antler, and ivory implements have been recovered from sites across North America. Unfortunately, few of these early organic objects have been described with the detail necessary for comparative analyses of tool functions and manufacturing trajectories. This article represents an attempt to stimulate the reporting of such detailed microtrace data by presenting the results …
With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education
Just over a half century ago, in the immediate aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a volume of essays appeared under the title With All Deliberate Speed (1957). Produced by the Southern Education Reporting Service (whose great contribution to the events of the day—and to later generations of historians— was the publication of the Southern School News [1954–1965], a month-by-month account of school desegregation), it offered a snapsho…
On the relationship of dental microwear to dental macrowear
Dental microwear analysts have demonstrated that hard diets leave numerous microscopic pits on occlusal surfaces. The relationship between occlusal pitting and gross macrowear, however, is not well known. The current study seeks to elucidate the relationship between dental microwear and macrowear by determining if microscopically pitted teeth are associated with greater expressions of macrowear. This study examined microwear and macrowear on mand…
Brief communication: Correcting overestimation when determining two‐dimensional occlusal area in human molars
The robustness index (RI) is determined by multiplying dental mesiodistal and buccolingual diameters, and is used to estimate occlusal area. However, because teeth are not rectangular its calculation consistently causes overestimations. Moreover, teeth, in particular molars, are not identically shaped so overestimations vary. The current study seeks to determine the extent to which overestimations are affected by tooth shape and to improve RI's e…
Light Microscopy of Microfractures in Burned Bone
Bone color changes depending upon the taphonomic agents that affect it. Burning turns bone black, brown, blue, gray, and white as the bone's temperature increases and collagen is lost. It also creates diagnostic fractures that are visible at the gross level. Usually heat-altered bone is readily identified as such, but there are times when dark organic stains can mimic bone that is charred black. This paper provides a means to observe and quantify…
The Poetics of Waste
Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and res
Analysis of Burned Human Remains
Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana
Warhol’s Problem Project: The Time Capsules
This essay examines the split function of Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules as both research archive and unrealized art project. It suggests that the Time Capsules epitomize Warhol’s career-long preoccupation with consumption and waste (a concern animating much of his art production), and that the extreme materiality of the 610 Time Capsules is a complicated response to dematerialization in conceptual art practices and the post-war global economy. Fina…
Divided by Law: The Sit-ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement
A central goal of the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the protests that launched the direct-action phase of the Civil Rights Movement, was to give new meaning to the very idea of “civil rights.” To the students who took part in the protests, civil rights work entailed litigation and lobbying. It required relying on the older generation of civil rights activists and working through established civil rights organizations. It meant surrendering stude…
Middle and Late Archaic Trophy Taking in Indiana
In the archaeological record, trophy taking is the removal of body parts from living or recently deceased people. This phenomenon as it is expressed during the Middle and Late Archaic periods (MLAP) in the southern part of the state along the Ohio River; all of the sites are located either on the river or nearby on one of its small tributaries or sloughs. In southern Indiana, trophy taking tended to involve the removal of entire forearms and head…
Legal History and the Problem of the Long Civil Rights Movement
This essay offers a critical examination of use of the term “long civil rights movement” as a framework for understanding the legal history of the battle against racial inequality in twentieth-century America. Proponents of the long movement argue that expanding the chronological boundaries of the movement beyond the 1950s and 1960s allows scholars to better capture the diverse social mobilization efforts and ideas that fueled the black freedom s…
Deciduous enamel 3D microwear texture analysis as an indicator of childhood diet in medieval Canterbury, England
Beyond Backlash: Conservatism and the Civil Rights Movement
In this essay I argue for a reconsideration of the role of conservatives and conservative legal claims in the legal history of the civil rights movement. I do this through summaries of three interrelated topics, each of which I believe merit more careful scholarly attention. First, I consider the legal arguments and litigation tactics of conservatives who opposed the civil rights movement. Second, I examine underappreciated strains of conservatis…
Symposium: How Law Works—Editor's Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
Risa Goluboff’s Vagrant Nation is a masterwork of legal history. The research alone is a remarkable achievement. The topic of the book, the demise of vagrancy laws in the 1960s and early 1970s, provides a wealth of fascinating material, but, as a subject of research, it is frightfully unwieldy. The regulations that constitute what Goluboff terms the “vagrancy law regime” came in many shapes and sizes, only some of them actually labeled vagrancy l…
Making Sense of the Messy Sixties: Introduction to a Review Symposium on Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation
This essay provides a summary and critical appraisal of Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s , a book that interweaves the stories of an eclectic cast of characters who were the targets of vagrancy law prosecutions with stories of the lawyers who challenged these prosecutions. In charting the demise of what she terms a “vagrancy law regime,” Goluboff provides insights on the major social…
Determining onset of significant facial pathology using dental wear and microwear texture analysis: A case study from the Middle Archaic (~5,500 BP) of Indiana
Paleopathologists face complicated presentations of osteological conditions that ac-crued over a considerable period of ill-health. Determining the relative sequence of symptoms and how long the individual lived with them is critical to understanding disease onset and progression in the body and may help to identify a specific disease. This paper describes an atypical presentation of the dentition associated with a 5,000-year-old case of treponem…
To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights
"To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(6), pp. 150–151
Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts
Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens sapiens: Foragers, farmers, and pastoralists
OBJECTIVES: The current study seeks to determine if a sample of foragers, farmers, and pastoralists are distinguishable based on their dental microwear texture signatures. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included a sample of 719 individuals from 51 archeological sites (450 farmers, 192 foragers, 77 pastoralists). All were over age 12 and sexes were pooled. Using a Sensofar® white-light confocal profiler we collected dental microwear texture anal…
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