Schmidt, who had the site completely excavated in summer and autumn 1906, finished his analysis in 1910 and published the 1912 monograph The diluvial prehistory of Germany (Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands). In a synthesis of his own field data and the contemporary state of research he addressed archaeological questions interdisciplinary and placed the Sirgenstein Cave's research within the Ach River cave context, the Swabian Jura and the then known European context. He also recognized and articulated obvious correlations between the already voluminous French and German records of human, biological and cultural prehistory. Schmidt divided the Sirgenstein Cave sediments into eight (I to VIII) relevant and one sterile strata. Although stratigraphically consistent, the most recent cultures of the Upper Paleolithic layers received clarification.