Geochemical fingerprinting of Pleistocene stone tools from the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Raw material analyses of prehistoric stone tool assemblages can reveal insight into mobility and exchange patterns in hunter-gatherer populations by reconstructing the circulation of stone throughout ancient landscapes.
Benjamin Utting
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Stone tools differences across three capuchin monkey populations: food’s physical properties, ecology, and culture [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus) are known for processing mechanically challenging foods, having morphological adaptations to do so. However, several populations go beyond body limitations by using stone tools to expand their food range.
Tiago Falótico +3 more
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First GIS analysis of modern stone tools used by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Bossou, Guinea, West Africa [PDF]
, 2015 Stone tool use by wild chimpanzees of West Africa offers a unique opportunity to explore the evolutionary roots of technology during human evolution. However, detailed analyses of chimpanzee stone artifacts are still lacking, thus precluding a comparison
Arroyo, Adrian +4 more
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A Critical Review on the Book Stone Tools in Human Evolution, Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates by John Shea [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2022 In his book Stone Tools in Human Evolution, Behavioural Differences among Technological Primates, John Shea focuses on a new framework for analyzing stone tools to answer questions related to the evolution of human behavior.
Elham Ghasidian
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Bee products in the prehistoric southern levant: evidence from the lipid organic record
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Beehive products have a rich global history. In the wider Levantine region, bees had a significant role in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and intensive beekeeping was noted in Israel during the Biblical period when apiaries were first identified.
Rivka Chasan +7 more
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Stone-tool assemblage of the Eneolithic settlement of Tolum-1 in the Konda River Basin [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 In 2020, the expedition of Poengurr and the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of RAS investigated the settlement of Tolum-1, which functioned during the Neolithic, Eneolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Ages.
Khramcov M.V. +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 We present the results of a detailed geochemical provenance study of 54 Natufian (ca. 15,000–11,700 cal. BP) basalt pestles from the site of el-Wad Terrace (EWT), Israel. It is the first time precise locations from where basalt raw materials were derived
Danny Rosenberg +4 more
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Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2021 Many stone tools were found on a hill south of the Hor Al-Dalmaj which is located in the central part of the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Aqeel A. Al-Zubaidi +2 more
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Experimental investigation of orangutans' lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Early stone tools, and in particular sharp stone tools, arguably represent one of the most important technological milestones in human evolution. The production and use of sharp stone tools significantly widened the ecological niche of our ancestors ...
Alba Motes-Rodrigo +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Metalwork was a major technological innovation that displaced stone-tool technologies and transformed human society and the environment. However, our understanding of these processes remains partial.
Ron Shimelmitz, Erez Ben-Yosef
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