Modelling the behaviour of extinct hominins is essential in order to devise useful hypotheses
of our species' evolutionary origins for testing in the palaeontological and archaeological …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which
displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to …

All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys
include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context …

Recent etho-archaeological studies of stone-tool use by wild chimpanzees have contributed
valuable data towards elucidating the variables that influenced the emergence and …

Savanna chimpanzees are known to re-use areas of the landscape for sleep, and patterns of
chimpanzee sleeping site re-use are proposed as a referential model for early hominin …

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 …

The knapping experiments with Kanzi, a bonobo, are among the most insightful experiments
into Oldowan technology ever undertaken. Comparison of his artifacts against archeological …

We explored variation in patterns of percussive stone-tool use on coastal foods by Burmese
long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea) from two islands in Laem Son National …

Levallois reduction was geographically widespread during the Middle Palaeolithic, being
practiced by both Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and early Modern Humans (Homo …