The Use of tools by human and non-human primates /

Compares the results, and considers the fabrication and use of tools in the course of human evolution, and analyzes the movements dictated to the brain. Tools of wood, stone and metal have often been influenced by needs imposed by the environment leading to technical progress.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Berthelet, A. (Arlette) (Editor), Chavaillon, Jean (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
Series:	Oxford science publications. Fyssen Foundation symposium.
Subjects:	Tools > Congresses. Tool use in animals > Congresses. Tools, Prehistoric > Congresses. Brain > Physiology > Congresses. Motor ability > Physiological aspects > Congresses. Ethnology. Animal behavior. Primates. Anthropology, Cultural Behavior, Animal Primates Brain > physiology Motor Skills > physiology Ethnology Usage de l'instrument chez les animaux > Congrès. Outils préhistoriques > Congrès. Cerveau > Physiologie > Congrès. Activité motrice > Aspect physiologique > Congrès. Ethnologie. Animaux > Mœurs et comportement. social anthropology. ethnology. Primates (order) Animal behavior Brain > Physiology Motor ability > Physiological aspects Tool use in animals Tools Tools, Prehistoric Gereedschappen. Prehistorie. Mensen. Primaten. Outils > Congrès. Animaux > Moeurs et comportement > Congrès. Anthropologie > Congrès. Electronic books. Congress proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:

Primate hands and the human hand : the tool of tools / F.K. Jouffroy
The hand and the tool : the functional architecture of human technical skills / J. Paillard
Control of the monkey's hand by the motor cortex / R. Lemon
Human prehension and its prosthetic substitution / P. Rabischong
Some one- and two-handed functions and processes in tool use by pongids / B. Brésard
Cognitive competence underlying tool use in free-ranging orang-utans / K.A. Bard
Tool use in a South American monkey species : an overview of the characteristics and limits of tool use in Cebus apella / E. Visalberghi
Brains, hands, and minds : puzzling incongruities in ape tool use / W.C. McGrew
Diversity of tool use and tool-making in wild chimpanzees / Ch. Boesch and H. Boesch
Local variation of tools and tool use among wild chimpanzee populations / Y. Sugiyama
The earliest stone tools : their implications for an understanding of the activities and behaviour of late Pliocene hominids / J.W.K. Harris and S.D. Capaldo
Are we able to determine the function of the earliest Palaeolithic tools? / S. Beyries
The origin of secondary tools / J. Kitahara-Frisch
The origin of tool use and the evolution of social space in Palaeolithic times : some reflections / M. Piperno
Ecological determinism, group strategies, and individual decisions in the conception of prehistoric stone assemblages / C. Perlès
Tools and hunter-gatherers / T. Ingold
A framework for analysing prehistoric stone tool manufacture and a tentative application to some early stone industries / J. Pelegrin
Some socio-economic aspects of the knapping process among groups of hunter-gatherers in the Paris Basin area / C. Karlin [and others]
The transfer of knowledge within the craft industries and trade guilds / J. Perriault
From polished stone tool to sacred axe : the axes of the Danis of Irian Jaya, Indonesia / P. Petrequin and A.M. Petrequin
How can we analyse and describe technical actions? / F. Sigaut.