Figure 1 | Wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) can make and use stick tools to extricate insects. Motes-Rodrigo et al. 2 investigated whether captive orangutans can make stone tools.

Monkeys that make sharp-edged stones raise questions about evolution of stone tool production.

Untrained orangutans seemed to instinctively use a stone hammer and cutting implement, surprising researchers.

Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil's Serra da Capivara National Park have been found to inadvertently produce stone flakes that resemble stone tools deliberately produced by early humans.

Wild capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally producing flakes similar to the ancient sharp-edged flakes characterized as intentionally produced Pliocene–Pleistocene ...

Dr. Bill Schindler, a professor of archeology and anthropology at Washington College, explains how to construct some primitive stone tools that could be useful in a survival situation.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

The prehistoric inhabitants of the Philippines were able to make ropes and baskets from plant fibres almost 40,000 years ago, according to an analysis of stone tools.

Capuchin monkeys in Brazil have been seen making sharp stone flakes. It was previously thought that only humans and their ancestors had flaking skills.

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Ground-stone tools and hunter-gatherer subsistence in late Pleistocene southwest Asia are examined in light of ethnographic and experimental data on processing methods essential for consumption of ...