!Researchers discover stone tools in Brazil made by monkeys, not humans
Researchers have revealed that ancient stone tools made of quartz that were discovered in Brazil were made by Capuchin monkeys, and not by early humans, as was once thought.
More than 800 archaeological sites contain tools made by monkeys
For many years, scientists believed that humans settled Brazil 50,000 years ago.
Interesting discoveries of similar stone tools made by Capuchin monkeys in the third millennium
Archaeologist and paleontologist Agustín M. Agnolín has confirmed that the ancient stone tools found in the Pedra Fiorada region, which includes more than 800 archaeological sites, are in fact the production of monkeys and are not evidence of early human settlement of this region as scientists previously thought.
These archaeological sites are located in Piauí, in northeastern Brazil, and the age of the discoveries in them reaches 50 thousand years. They were discovered for the first time in 1973 by a Brazilian-French team that was excavating in this region, and for many years they were considered evidence of the settlement of ancient people and the first Americans in Brazil since this era, to come more examinations since 2016 to completely refute this theory.
Other discoveries in the region have shown that Capuchin monkeys living in northeastern Brazil are capable of making and using a variety of stone tools, which made a group of scientists hypothesize for the first time in 2017 that the tools found at the Pedra Fiorada site are also made by monkeys.
According to Agnolin's research, a group of evidence has become integrated to confirm that these 800 archaeological sites may indeed be made by Cambodian monkeys. First, there is not much difference between the tools supposed to have been made 50,000 years ago and those made by monkeys in the third millennium.
On the other hand, scientists did not find any evidence of human presence in that region in the Stone Age, as there was no stove, no traces of food remains, or other human activities.
Therefore, recent research confirms that tools and other sites in Brazil that are essentially stone-based may indeed be made by capuchin monkeys and have nothing to do with humans at all.
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