寻找最早的考古记录:来自黑猩猩物质景观的见解
Jonathan S Reeves1,2, Tomos Proffitt1,3, Soiret Serge Pacome4
1Technological Primates Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6 , Leipzig, Germany.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
|August 20, 2024
概括
调查黑猩猩的坚果裂解揭示了不同的石器签名. 这提供了对潜在的前核心和碎片考古记录的洞察力,揭示了早期工具使用起源.
科学领域:
- 人类进化研究 人类进化研究
- 考古学的考古学
- 灵长类动物学 灵长类动物学
背景情况:
- 工具使用的起源是人类进化的一个关键问题,最早的证据是在Plio-Pleistocene核心和片技术中发现的.
- 假设有潜在的打击工具使用的早期阶段,但缺乏直接的考古证据.
- 与核心和片技术相比,对打击行为的考古学特征的理解较少.
研究的目的:
- 通过研究黑猩猩的坚果破碎行为来研究敲击工具使用的材料特征.
- 了解行为和环境因素如何塑造石器,记录敲击活动.
- 提供关于前核心和块考古记录的潜在签名的见解.
主要方法:
- 在科特迪瓦塔伊森林的Djouroutou黑猩猩项目进行了黑猩猩 (Pan troglodytes verus) 材料文化的景观规模研究.
- 调查了坚果破碎场所,分析了现有的坚果种类,并评估了原材料的可用性.
- 检查了由坚果破裂活动产生的石材签名.
主要成果:
- 证明了资源的可用性如何影响黑猩猩坚果破裂的物质特征.
- 揭示了与纯粹敲击工具使用记录相关的材料签名的多样性.
- 提供了理解潜在的考古学签名前的核心和片技术的基础.
结论:
- 黑猩猩的坚果破碎为理解纯粹的敲击式石器使用提供了一个模型.
- 这项研究突出了由资源可用性和行为导致的材料签名的变化.
- 为识别早期,前核心和片状,人类血统中工具使用的证据提供了新的期望.
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