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Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees
Pascual-Garrido, Alejandra; Carvalho, Susana; Mjungu, Deus; Schulz-Kornas, Ellen; Casteren, Adam vanPhysical evidence of early hominin perishable tools is scarce. However, it is reasonable to assume the mechanical constraints surrounding tool use and manufacture have remained somewhat constant. Using a functional framework to understand the technical capabilities of extant hominoid tool users presents a novel approach to predict the perishable tool-using capabilities of our earliest relatives. We investigated...
Archaeology of the Perishable Ecological Constraints and Cultural Variants in C...
Pascual-Garrido, Alejandra; Almeida-Warren, KatarinaSelection and transport of materials for tools is ubiquitous throughout our species' evolutionary history. Yet our understanding of early human material culture is heavily skewed toward lithic technology. This poses challenges when reconstructing our technical origins, as organic raw materials, especially plants, likely played a significant role despite their absence from the record until 300 kya. Studies of pl...