Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of wide-ranging, contemporary essays on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive archaeology, which offers cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art.

Karenleigh A. Overmann has a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Oxford, as well as a master's in psychology and bachelor's in anthropology, philosophy, and English from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). She is a founding member of the faculty of the UCCS Center for Cognitive Archaeology, and in June 2018 she began an MSCA individual fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her primary research investigates numeracy and literacy as complex cultural systems that emerge through sustained interactions between brains, behaviors, and material forms. Her previous career was in the U.S. Navy, where she performed communications-electronics work as an enlisted Radioman before earning a commission under the Limited Duty Officer program; she retired with 25 years active service in 2003. Professor Frederick L. Coolidge has a PhD from the University of Florida and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology. He is a three-time Fulbright Fellow recipient and has three teaching awards and two research awards from the University of Colorado. He was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar to Oxford University (Keble College) in 2015 and Visiting Scholar to the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 2014-2018.