Paleolithic Technology Laboratory
Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Latest publications
Stout, D., Liu, C., Muller, A., Rogers, M. J., & Semaw, S. (2025). Imposed form in the early acheulean? Evidence from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 32(4), 60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09730-8
Kilgore, M. B., Liu, C., & Stout, D. (2025). What can lithics tell us about the evolution of learning and development? Archaeometry, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70002
Liu, C., & Stout, D. (2025). Beyond the binary: Inferential challenges and solutions in cognitive archaeology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48, e13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X24000980
Barrett, L., & Stout, D. (2024). Minds in movement: Embodied cognition in the age of artificial intelligence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1911), 20230144. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0144
Liu, C., Yan, X., Zhang, Z., Ding, C., Zhao, T., Jannati, S., Martinez, C., & Stout, D. (2024). Human stone toolmaking action grammar (Hstag): A challenging benchmark for fine-grained motor behavior recognition. 2024 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSAA61799.2024.10722814
Stout, D. (2024). Stability and Change in Paleolithic Toolmaking. In M. Charbonneau (Ed.), The Evolution of Techniques (pp. 139–158). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15181.003.0014
Wilson, E. P., Stout, D., Liu, C., Kilgore, M. B., & Pargeter, J. (2023). Skill and core uniformity: An experiment with oldowan-like flaking systems. Lithic Technology, 48(4), 333–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2023.2178767
Liu, C., Khreisheh, N., Stout, D., & Pargeter, J. (2023). Differential effects of knapping skill acquisition on the cultural reproduction of Late Acheulean handaxe morphology: Archaeological and experimental insights. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49, 103974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103974
Liu, C., & Stout, D. (2023). Inferring cultural reproduction from lithic data: A critical review. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 32(2), 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21964
Pargeter, J., Liu, C., Kilgore, M. B., Majoe, A., & Stout, D. (2022). Testing the effect of learning conditions and individual motor/cognitive differences on knapping skill acquisition. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09592-4
Stout, D., & Hecht, E. (2023). Evolutionary Neuroscience of Cultural Evolution. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. L. Kendal (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution (1st ed., pp. 67–80). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.7
Hecht, E. E., Pargeter, J., Khreisheh, N., & Stout, D. (2023). Neuroplasticity enables bio-cultural feedback in Paleolithic stone-tool making. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 2877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29994-y
Arbib, M. A., Fragaszy, D. M., Healy, S. D., & Stout, D. (2023). Tooling and construction: From nut-cracking and stone-tool making to bird nests and language. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 100121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100121
Stout, D. (2023). Experimental Neuroarchaeology of Visuospatial Behavior. In Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception (pp. 195–211). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99193-3.00008-8
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