1st Edition

Primate Archaeology and Adaptation A Study of Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaques in India

By Jayashree Mazumder Copyright 2027
216 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Primate Archaeology and Adaptation  offers an interdisciplinary examination of Nicobar long-tailed macaques, situating their tool use, social behavior, and ecological flexibility within deep evolutionary time and contemporary conservation challenges. It documents the ecology, social organization, and behavioral repertoire of long-tailed macaques, including foraging strategies, food sharing,... Read more

Chapter 1: Primate Archaeology across India and Abroad

Chapter 2: Knowing the Islands and the Animal

Chapter 3: Food and Foraging Behavior of Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaques

Chapter 4: Social Behavior, Exploration, and Context-dependent  Behavioral Responses in Long-tailed Macaques

Chapter 5: Macaque Social and Reproductive Behavior

Chapter 6: Tool-use and Culture, Discovering Newness and Local Vibes: Lasting Traits and Vanished Details

Chapter 7: Conservation and the Future of Tool-Use Behavior and Cultural Heritage in Nicobar Macaques

Biography

Jayashree Mazumder is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delhi. She was formerly an ANRF/SERB National Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. A biological anthropologist and primatologist, her research spans primate archaeology, tool use, and material culture in Nicobar long-tailed macaques, and currently centers on the movement ecology and conservation of hoolock gibbons in Northeast India.