Susana Carvalho - Evolutionary Origins of Technological Behavior: A Primate Archaeology Approach to Chimpanzees
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| Description: | My research has focused on trying to bridge the natural and social sciences, in seeking the evolutionary origins of technology and, more specifically, in studying wild chimpanzees to help model a variety of technology-related behaviours in early hominins. |
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| Created: | 2012-12-06 15:49 | ||
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| Collection: | Clare Hall FSI Podcasts | ||
| Publisher: | Clare Hall | ||
| Copyright: | Susana Carvalho - Clare Hall | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
| Keywords: | Evolution; Primate; Archeology; Chimpanzee; Stone tools; | ||
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| Abstract: | Long-term, systematic research at Bossou, in Guinea, West Africa, has focused on chimpanzee elementary technology, both under natural conditions and in a field experimental setting (the so-called "outdoor laboratory"). Since 2006, my research at Bossou has combined archaeological methods with direct observations and indirect data on individual chimpanzees and their assemblages of artefacts (e.g. Carvalho et al. 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012). These studies have sought to elucidate for the first time the natural behavioural patterns and contexts that generate assemblages that can be compared with those recovered from the past, for both apes and humans. I have been applying archaeological methods of excavation, survey, and analysis to the stone tools of West African non-human primates and, at the same time, I am a primatologist engaged in systematic archaeological research at East African Oldowan sites.
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