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Towards a prehistory of primates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Haslam
Michael Haslam*
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Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK (Email: [email protected])
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Using the behaviour of related primates to provide analogies for early humans has a long tradition in archaeology. But these primates too have a past, and experienced particular contexts for the adoption of tool-using. In this pioneering review, the author explores distinctions among chimpanzees in ecology, diet and innovation, sets a wider agenda for a prehistory of primates and explains how archaeology could serve it.

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primatesmodern behaviourtool-usingchimpanzees
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Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 332 , June 2012 , pp. 299 - 315
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2012

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