Archaeology meets primate technology

Andrew Whiten ()
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Andrew Whiten: Andrew Whiten is in the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JP, UK.

Nature, 2013, vol. 498, issue 7454, 303-305

Abstract: A study of wild capuchin monkeys that crack nuts using stone hammers reveals temporal and spatial patterning of the relics of their technological efforts, confirming that such behaviours can be studied from an archaeological perspective.

Date: 2013
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