The stone tools of capuchins (Cebus apella) |
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| Authors: | Gregory Charles Westergaard Stephen J Suomi |
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| Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland;(2) National Institutes of Health Animal Center, P.O. Box 529, 20837 Poolesville, Maryland |
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| Abstract: | We examined the production of stone took by capuchins (Cebus apella). Eleven subjects used five reduction techniques to produce 346 stone tools (48 cores and 298 flakes). They produced a sharp
edge on 83% of the cores and largest flakes. Three monkeys later used a sample of these objects as cutting tools. These results
demonstrate that monkeys produce lithic tools analogous to those produced by Oldowan hominids. |
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| Keywords: | tools artifacts capuchins Cebus apella Oldowan archaeology |
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