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New insight into the possible origin of chipped stone tool technology

The use of a hammer-and-anvil technique to crack nuts by monkeys and chimpanzees may represent the precursor of human stone tool technology.

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Monkeys and the use of stone tools: study

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology describes stone-tool resembling artifacts made by monkeys in Thailand that may indicate that the first human use of stone tools was accidental.

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Stone Flakes Made by Monkeys Raise Questions About Early Human Tools | Smart News

The flakes accidentally produced by long-tailed macaques resemble those thought to have been made by early humans

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Ancient Stone Tools Accidentally Made by Modern Monkeys

Monkeys have been observed making stone tools unintentionally, so could ancient humans have been doing this too? Just how many ‘ancient tools’ are simply accidental flakes?

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Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys
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