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

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.

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

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?

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found artefacts built by old-world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools that were historically thought to have been deliberately crafted by early hominins.

Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found artefacts built by old-world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools that were historically thought to have been deliberately crafted by early hominins. Science News | Did Early Humans and Monkeys Use Same Stone Tools? Find out.

Remarkable connections between early human stone tools and those used by monkeys.

The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today.

The dents and dings on the surfaces of rocks used by chimpanzees to crack open nuts preserve a history of how the animals used the tools and how those patterns change from one troop to the next, researchers reported recently in Royal Society Open Science. This archaeological data can offer insights into the ways similar […]

Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern...