Antoine Muller

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)

Affiliation

Publications

Klein K, Muller A, Wohde A, Gorelik AV, Heyd V, Lämmel R, Diekmann Y, Brami M, 2025. An AI-assisted workflow for object detection and data collection from archaeological catalogues. Journal of Archaeological Science, 179: 106244.

Muller A, Sharon G, Grosman L, 2025. The skills of handaxe making: Quantifying and explaining variability in 3D sinuosity and bifacial asymmetry. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 32: 35.

Goldgeier H, Muller A, Grosman L, 2025 A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture. Archaeological Research in Asia, 41: 100571.

Muller A, Sharon G, Grosman L, 2024. Automatic analysis of the continuous edges of stone tools reveals fundamental handaxe variability. Scientific Reports, 14: 7422. 

Muller A, Barsky D, Sala-Ramos R, Sharon G, Titton S, Vergès J-M, Grosman L, 2023. The limestone spheroids of ‘Ubeidiya: intentional imposition of symmetric geometry by early hominins? Royal Society Open Science, 10: 230671.

Muller A, Shipton C, Clarkson C, 2023. The proceduralization of knapping skill throughout the Palaeolithic: memorising different lithic technologies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 33(4): 655-672. 

Muller A and Clarkson C, 2023 Filling in the blanks: standardization of lithic flake production throughout the Stone Age. Lithic Technology, 48(3): 222-236. 

Brami M, Emra S, Muller A, Preda-Balanica B, Irvine B, Milic B, Malago A, Meheux K, Fernandez-Gotz M. 2023, A precarious future: reflections from a survey of early career researchers in archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology, 26(2): 226-250.

Muller A, Shipton C, Clarkson C, 2022. Stone toolmaking difficulty and the evolution of hominin technological skills. Scientific Reports 12: 5883. 

Grosman L, Muller A, Dag I, Goldgeier H, Harush O, Herzlinger G, Nebenhaus K, Valetta F, Yashuv T, Dick N, 2022. Artifact3-D: new software for accurate, objective and efficient 3D analysis and documentation of archaeological artifacts. PLoS ONE 17(6): e0268401.

Muller A, Barkai R, Shemer M, Grosman L, 2022. 3D morphology of handaxes from late Acheulean Jaljulia: a flexible reduction strategy in the Lower Paleolithic Levant, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14: 206.

Sharon G, Muller A, Gubenko N, 2022. In search of the Acheulian site of Ma’ayan Barukh. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 52: 6-31.

Muller A, 2021 The ongoing search for the origins of cumulative culture. Comment on Vaesen K and Houkes W, Is human culture cumulative? Current Anthropology 62(2): 226-227.

Brami M, Emra S, Kolář J, Malagó A, Milić B, Muller A, Preda B, 2020. Interviews of recently-tenured academics in Northern Europe: comments on career paths in academic archaeology and some advice for young scholars. The European Archaeologist 65(3): 18-28.

Muller A, Clarkson C, Baird D, Fairbairn A, 2018. Reduction intensity of backed blades: blank consumption, regularity and efficiency at the early Neolithic site of Boncuklu, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21: 721-732.

Muller A, Clarkson C, Shipton C, 2017. Measuring behavioural and cognitive complexity in lithic technology throughout human evolution. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 48: 166-180.

Muller A and Clarkson C, 2016. Identifying major transitions in the evolution of lithic cutting edge production rates. PLoS ONE, 11(12): e0167244.

Muller A and Clarkson C, 2016. A new method for accurately and precisely measuring flake platform area. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 8: 178-186.

Muller A and Clarkson C, 2014. Estimating original flake mass on blades using 3D platform area: problems and prospects. Journal of Archaeological Science, 52: 31-38.