灵长类考古学 灵长类考古学
Michael Haslam1, Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Victoria Ling
1Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. mah66@cam.ac.uk
Nature
|July 17, 2009
概括
现代人类广泛使用工具,但这种先进的工具使用在其他灵长类动物中没有观察到. 这项研究检查了灵长类动物的化石记录,以了解灵长类动物物种中工具使用的演变.
科学领域:
- 灵长类动物的进化
- 人类学是人类学.
- 考古学的考古学
背景情况:
- 工具使用是现代人类的一个决定性特征,使他们能够克服解剖学的局限性.
- 进化轨迹和工具使用的程度在不同灵长类动物物种之间有很大差异.
- 了解灵长类动物工具使用的深层历史对于理解人类的独特性至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查灵长类中工具使用的进化历史.
- 探索灵长类物种之间工具使用的差异发展背后的原因.
- 分析材料记录以寻找长时间内灵长类动物使用工具的证据.
主要方法:
- 对灵长类动物的古生物学和考古学材料记录的检查.
- 在不同的灵长类动物谱系中对工具使用证据的比较分析.
- 对灵长类动物操纵行为演变的长期观点.
主要成果:
- 摘要不包含特定的结果.
- 需要进一步的研究来分析材料记录.
- 关于灵长类物种之间工具使用的比较数据有限.
结论:
- 灵长类动物工具使用的演变需要长期的,基于材料的视角.
- 研究灵长类化石记录对于了解工具使用的起源和多样性至关重要.
- 需要进一步的研究来阐明非人类灵长类动物工具使用的进化途径.
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