With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.
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Capuchin monkeys in Brazil use big stones to crush the shells of nuts they want to eat. An experiment in the field investigated how these monkeys prepare to use new, unfamiliar tools.
Conquer the globe? You bet we did – but when did it start? A new paper shows early humans made tools in China two million years ago.
We can’t observe the brain activity of extinct human species. But we can observe modern brains doing the things that our distant ancestors did, looking for clues about how ancient brains worked.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Stone Age Institute and The Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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PhD Student in Anthropology and Integrative Conservation, University of Georgia
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Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University