Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the characteristics of those produced by early Stone Age ...

WHEN a representative series of flint implements is examined comprising examples of every stage of culture from the Neolithic back to the earliest Chelles-Palæolithic specimens, it will be observed ...

OXFORD, England, Oct. 19 (UPI) --Researchers have observed capuchin monkeys in Brazil making stone flakes similar to those made by early hominins for cutting and scraping. The findings could ...

IN view of the wide acceptance in Great Britain of the terms vitrain, clarain, durain, and fusain devised by Dr. Stopes to describe the banded constituents of British bituminous coal, and the ...

Wild-bearded capuchin monkey in Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil, unintentionally creating fractured flakes and cores. Michael Haslam/ Primate Archaeology Group Wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in ...

Toolmaking may not have been such a unique feat for our immediate ancestors after all – even modern monkeys have now been found to create stone tools. The surprising finding casts doubt on the ...