Resource depletion through primate stone technology

• Main Authors: Luncz, Lydia V, Tan, Amanda, Haslam, Michael, Kulik, Lars, Proffitt, Tomos, Malaivijitnond, Suchinda, Gumert, Michael David
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Primate stone technology; Tool-assisted foraging
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86567; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44053
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tool use has allowed humans to become one of the most successful species. However, tool-assisted foraging has also pushed many of our prey species to extinction or endangerment, a technology-driven process thought to be uniquely human. Here, we demonstrate that tool-assisted foraging on shellfish by...