/ Tools Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /blog/monkeys-stone-tool-use-gives-insight-archaeology <p>ºÙºÙÊÓƵ anthropologists are studying the stone age of capuchin monkeys living on tropical islands off Panama. This 'primate archaeology' is a new approach to archaeology which could give insight into how our own ancestors started using stone tools.&nbsp;</p> April 19, 2024 - 12:58pm Andy Fell /blog/monkeys-stone-tool-use-gives-insight-archaeology /curiosity/news/humans-migrated-mongolia-much-earlier-previously-believed <p>Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed.</p> <p>The site also points to a new location for where modern humans may have first encountered their mysterious cousins, the now extinct Denisovans, said Nicolas Zwyns, an associate professor of anthropology and lead author of the study.</p> August 16, 2019 - 11:53am Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/humans-migrated-mongolia-much-earlier-previously-believed