%0 Journal Article
%A Reeves, Jonathan S.
%A Proffitt, Tomos
%A Pacome, Soiret Serge
%A Luncz, Lydia V.
%+ Lise Meitner Group Technological Primates, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Lise Meitner Group Technological Primates, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Lise Meitner Group Technological Primates, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-C7AF-C
%R 10.1098/rsif.2024.0101
%7 2024-08-21
%D 2024
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The origin of tool use is a central question in human evolutionary studies. <br>Plio-Pleistocene core and flake technologies represent the earliest evidence <br>of tool use in the human lineage. Some suggest this form of tool use is <br>probably pre-dated by a phase of percussive tool use. However, there is <br>currently no evidence for such a record. The archaeological signature of <br>solely percussive behaviours is not as well understood as that associated <br>with cores and flakes. The durable nature of primate percussive stone <br>tools and their by-products provide an opportunity to investigate what <br>such a record looks like. Here, we present a landscape-scale study of the <br>chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) material culture from the Djouroutou <br>Chimpanzee Project, Taï Forest, Cote d’Ivoire. This study explores the <br>interplay between behavioural and environmental factors in shaping the <br>stone record of nut cracking. Through a survey of nut-cracking sites, the <br>available nut species, and raw materials, we show how resource availability <br>influences the resulting material signature of nut cracking. These results <br>also reveal the diversity of material signatures associated with a purely <br>percussive material record. We gain insight into the range of signatures <br>that may be associated with a pre-core and flake archaeological record, <br>providing new expectations for an earlier record of tool use.
%K chimpanzees, stone tools, primate archaeology, 
nut cracking, landscape archaeology
%J Journal of The Royal Society Interface
%V 21
%N 217
%] 20240101
%@ 1742-56891742-5662