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Title The Use of tools by human and non-human primates / edited by A. Berthelet and J. Chavaillon
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford science publications
Symposia of the Fyssen Foundation
Oxford science publications.
Fyssen Foundation symposium.
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
Summary 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
Analysis Primates
Notes Papers presented at a conference held in Versailles from 25 to 29 November 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject 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
social anthropology.
ethnology.
Primates (order)
Brain -- Physiology.
Motor ability -- Physiological aspects.
Tool use in animals.
Tools.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Gereedschappen.
Prehistorie.
Mensen.
Primaten.
Outils -- Congrès.
Animaux -- Moeurs et comportement -- Congrès.
Outils préhistoriques -- Congrès.
Cerveau -- Physiologie -- Congrès.
Usage de l'instrument chez les animaux -- Congrès.
Anthropologie -- Congrès.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Berthelet, A. (Arlette), editor.
Chavaillon, Jean, editor.
ISBN 9780191688652
0191688657