Wed. 01/11 - Earliest Human Tools Just Monkey Business?
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | It's Wednesday, January 11th, 2020. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:40.3 | 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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