ArticleScience advances2023
Wild macaques challenge the origin of intentional tool production.
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- Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya.Nature communications · 2025Article
- From stones to sketches: investigating tracing behaviours in Japanese macaques.Primates; journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Flake production: A universal by-product of primate stone percussion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The mind & muscles: Introducing a validated EEG/EMG protocol for recording cognitive-muscular interactions in experimental archaeology.PloS one · 2025Article
- Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of early hominin stone tool use through an experimental EEG approach.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Nut-cracking success and efficiency in two wild capuchin monkey populations.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Analyzing blank cutting edge efficiency associated with the adoption of microblade technology: A case study from Tolbor-17, Mongolia.PloS one · 2024Article
- Naïve, adult, captive chimpanzees do not socially learn how to make and use sharp stone tools.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Hafted technologies likely reduced stone tool-related selective pressures acting on the hominin hand.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Emergent technological variation in archaeological landscapes: a primate perspective.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Tool mastering today - an interdisciplinary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Intentionally produced sharp-edged stone flakes and flaked pieces are our primary evidence for the emergence of technology in our lineage. This evidence is used to decipher the earliest hominin behavior, cognition, and subsistence strategies. Here, we report on the largest lithic assemblage associated with a primate foraging behavior undertaken by long-tailed macaques (
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