Recent publications from QuantLab investigators and collaborators
This page highlights recent work by Erik Otárola-Castillo and Ben Schoville and shows how that scholarship connects to the lab's main research areas.
For complete and current publication records, visit the Google Scholar profiles.
Erik Otárola-Castillo on Google Scholar
Ben Schoville on Google Scholar
Erik Otárola-Castillo on Google Scholar
Ben Schoville on Google Scholar
Recent publications: Erik Otárola-Castillo
- Stone Tools in Shape-Space: Evaluating Geometric Morphometric Tangent Assumptions (2026)
- The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Stemmed Points across Western North America (2026)
- Significant Northwest Shift in Suitable Climate Expected for North American Bison by the Year 2100 (2026)
- Multidisciplinary Theory in Anthropology (2025)
- The Bayesian Inferential Paradigm in Archaeology (2023)
- A New Approach to the Quantitative Analysis of Bone Surface Modifications: The Bowser Road Mastodon and Implications of the Data for Understanding Human-Megafauna Interactions in North America (2023)
- Function, Style, and Standardization: Is the Proximal or Distal End of a Middle Stone Age Point More Variable? (2023)
- Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Health in Peru (2023)
- Intensification Mechanisms Driving Dietary Change among the Great Plains Big Game Hunters of North America (2022)
- Beyond Chronology, Using Bayesian Inference to Evaluate Hypotheses in Archaeology (2022)
- Integrated Evidence-Based Extent of Occurrence for North American Bison (Bison bison) since 1500 CE and Before (2022)
- Does the Evidence at Arroyo del Vizcaíno (Uruguay) Support the Claim of Human Occupation 30,000 Years Ago? (2022)
- Household Sanitary Conditions Modulate Associations between Birth Mode and Child Growth (2022)
- Machine Learning, Bootstrapping, Null Models and Why We Are Still Not 100% Sure Which Marks Were Made by Crocodiles (2022)
- Parts and Wholes: Reduction Allometry and Modularity in Experimental Folsom Points (2022)
Recent publications: Ben Schoville
- The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs (2025)
- Ga-Mohana Hill South Rock Shelter: A late Holocene hunter-gatherer rock shelter site in the Southern Kalahari Basin (2025)
- Did climate change make Homo sapiens innovative, and if yes, how? Debated perspectives on the African Pleistocene record (2024)
- Function, style, and standardization: is the proximal or distal end of a Middle Stone Age point more variable? (2023)
- The Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa (2023)
- The drone, the snake, and the crystal: Manifesting potency in 3D digital replicas of living heritage and archaeological places (2022)
- Holding your shape: controlled tip fracture experiments on cast porcelain points (2022)
- Tufas indicate prolonged periods of water availability linked to human occupation in the southern Kalahari (2022)
- Ostrich eggshell beads from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari, and the implications for understanding social networks during Marine Isotope Stage 2 (2022)
- Reply to: clusters of flowstone ages are not supported by statistical evidence (2021)
- Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record (2021)
- Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari (2021)
- A lithic provisioning model as a proxy for landscape mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari (2021)
Research areas represented here
- Americas: Paleoindian archaeology, bison ecology, faunal transport, and evidentiary evaluation.
- Africa: Kalahari archaeology, water availability, social transmission, innovation, and long-term human-environment interaction.
- Australia: Australia-linked collaborations in experimental archaeology, fracture studies, handbook synthesis, and digital heritage.
- Human evolution and methods: Bayesian inference, morphometrics, taphonomy, health, and quantitative archaeological reasoning.