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Primate archaeology evolves
- Source :
- Nature ecology & evolution On line 1 (2017): 1431–1437. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0286-4, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Haslam, Michael; Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana; Proffitt, Tomos; Arroyo, Adrian; Falotico, Tiago; Fragaszy, Dorothy; Gumert, Michael; Harris, John W. K.; Huffman, Michael A.; Kalan, Ammie K.; Malaivijitnond, Suchinda; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro; McGrew, William; Ottoni, Eduardo B.; Pascual-Garrido, Alejandra; Piel, Alex; Pruetz, Jill; Schuppli, Caroline; Stewart, Fiona; Tan, Amanda; Visalberghi, Elisabetta; Luncz, Lydia V./titolo:Primate archaeology evolves/doi:10.1038%2Fs41559-017-0286-4/rivista:Nature ecology & evolution On line/anno:2017/pagina_da:1431/pagina_a:1437/intervallo_pagine:1431–1437/volume:1
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group, 2018.
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Abstract
- Since its inception, archaeology has traditionally focused exclusively on humans and our direct ancestors. However, recent years have seen archaeological techniques applied to material evidence left behind by non-human animals. Here, we review advances made by the most prominent field investigating past non-human tool use: primate archaeology. This field combines survey of wild primate activity areas with ethological observations, excavations and analyses that allow the reconstruction of past primate behaviour. Because the order Primates includes humans, new insights into the behavioural evolution of apes and monkeys also can be used to better interrogate the record of early tool use in our own, hominin, lineage. This work has recently doubled the set of primate lineages with an excavated archaeological record, adding Old World macaques and New World capuchin monkeys to chimpanzees and humans, and it has shown that tool selection and transport, and discrete site formation, are universal among wild stone-tool-using primates. It has also revealed that wild capuchins regularly break stone tools in a way that can make them difficult to distinguish from simple early hominin tools. Ultimately, this research opens up opportunities for the development of a broader animal archaeology, marking the end of archaeology's anthropocentric era.
- Subjects :
- Primates
10207 Department of Anthropology
0301 basic medicine
Old World
Lineage (evolution)
Ecology (disciplines)
Archaeological record
hominids
stone tool use
03 medical and health sciences
Anthropocentrism
biology.animal
Animals
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Primate
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
QL
Tool Use Behavior
Ecology
biology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
05 social sciences
Biological anthropology
Excavation
CC
Biological Evolution
Archaeology
1105 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
030104 developmental biology
Evolutionary biology
2303 Ecology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2397334X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature ecology & evolution On line 1 (2017): 1431–1437. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0286-4, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Haslam, Michael; Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana; Proffitt, Tomos; Arroyo, Adrian; Falotico, Tiago; Fragaszy, Dorothy; Gumert, Michael; Harris, John W. K.; Huffman, Michael A.; Kalan, Ammie K.; Malaivijitnond, Suchinda; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro; McGrew, William; Ottoni, Eduardo B.; Pascual-Garrido, Alejandra; Piel, Alex; Pruetz, Jill; Schuppli, Caroline; Stewart, Fiona; Tan, Amanda; Visalberghi, Elisabetta; Luncz, Lydia V./titolo:Primate archaeology evolves/doi:10.1038%2Fs41559-017-0286-4/rivista:Nature ecology & evolution On line/anno:2017/pagina_da:1431/pagina_a:1437/intervallo_pagine:1431–1437/volume:1
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f30b2c0f1b160e434eb9c8ebd9e66702