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Wed. 01/11 - Earliest Human Tools Just Monkey Business?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Were the first stone tools in the Americas made, not by ancient humans, but by monkeys? Plus, could color-changing cars be in our future? And will other nations follow New Zealand’s lead on banning cigarettes to future generations? Links: Monkeys – Not Humans – Made Ancient Sets of Stone Tools in Brazil, Study Finds (ScienceAlert)  Scientists prove that tools attributed to ancient humans were made by ancestors of capuchin monkeys (CONICET) Ancient Stone Tools Once Thought to be Made by Humans Were Actually Crafted by Monkeys, Say Archaeologists (Artnet News) These monkeys are 3000 years into their own 'Stone Age'. (National Geographic, 2019) Monkeys Make Stone "Tools" That Bear a Striking Resemblance to Early Human Artifacts (Scientific American, 2017) Check out BMW’s color-changing concept car in action (The Verge) BMW's E Ink Car Wrap Just Took The Leap Into Color (Slash Gear) End of the cigarette? Labour unveil plan to wipe out smoking by 2030 by banning sale of tobacco (LBC) Cigarette sales could be banned under Labour (Wales Online) Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | 8th January 2023 (Political TV, YouTube) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, January 11th, 2020.

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I'm Jackson Bird today.

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We're the first stone tools in the Americas made not by ancient humans, but by monkeys.

0:47.3

Plus, could color-changing cars be in our future?

0:52.3

And will other nations follow New Zealand's lead on banning cigarettes

0:57.3

to future generations? Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Could 50,000-year-old stone

1:07.4

tools in Brazil sometimes thought to be evidence of ancient humans on the continent

1:12.1

tens of thousands of years earlier than commonly believed, actually have been left there by

1:18.1

monkeys. A paper published in the most recent issue of the journal Holocene is the latest in a line

1:25.3

of studies focusing on tool use by cappuccine monkeys in Brazil

1:29.7

and how that relates to the archaeological record of ancient humans. For nearly a century,

1:35.8

many archaeologists have argued for the Clovis First Theory, which says that the Clovis

1:41.5

people who lived in the Americas 13,000 to 14,000 years ago,

1:45.2

were the first humans on the continents, arriving only after glaciers subsided enough

1:50.8

towards the end of the Ice Age. But there have been a number of challenges to that theory over

1:56.0

the years, quoting ArtNet. In recent decades, archaeological sites like the Buttermilk Creek complex in Texas,

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