Research Catalog

Title

The Use of tools by human and non-human primates / edited by A. Berthelet and J. Chavaillon.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Berthelet, A. (Arlette)
• Chavaillon, Jean.

Description

xvii, 424 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

A Fyssen Foundation symposium

Uniform Title

Fyssen Foundation symposium.

Subject

• Tools > Congresses
• Tool use in animals > Congresses
• Tools, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Brain > Physiology > Congresses
• Motor ability > Physiological aspects > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Pt. I. The hand. 1. Primate hands and the human hand: the tool of tools / F.K. Jouffroy. 2. The hand and the tool: the functional architecture of human technical skills / J. Paillard. 3. Control of the monkey's hand by the motor cortex / R. Lemon. 4. Human prehension and its prosthetic substitution / P. Rabischong. 5. Some one- and two-handed functions and processes in tool use by pongids / B. Bresard -- Pt. II. Manipulation of the object: analyses and experiments. 6. Cognitive competence underlying tool use in free-ranging orang-utans / K.A. Bard. 7. Tool use in a South American monkey species: an overview of the characteristics and limits of tool use in Cebus apella / E. Visalberghi -- Pt. III. Influence of the natural habitat and variability in tool use: the notion of culture. 8. Brains, hands, and minds: puzzling incongruities in ape tool use / W.C. McGrew. 9. Diversity of tool use and tool-making in wild chimpanzees / Ch. Boesch and H. Boesch.
• 10. Local variation of tools and tool use among wild chimpanzee populations / Y. Sugiyama -- Pt. IV. Origin and ontogeny. 11. 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. 12. Are we able to determine the function of the earliest palaeolithic tools? / S. Beyries. 13. The origin of secondary tools / J. Kitahara-Frisch -- Pt. V. Evolution in social space and collection strategies in human hunter-gatherer societies. 14. The origin of tool use and the evolution of social space in palaeolithic times: some reflections / M. Piperno. 15. Ecological determinism, group strategies, and individual decisions in the conception of prehistoric stone assemblages / C. Perles. 16. Tools and hunter-gatherers / T. Ingold -- Pt. VI. Expertise and apprenticeship -- Introduction to Chapters 17 and 18 / C. Karlin and J. Pelegrin.
• 17. A framework for analysing prehistoric stone tool manufacture and a tentative application to some early stone industries / J. Pelegrin. 18. Some socio-economic aspects of the knapping process among groups of hunter-gatherers in the Paris Basin area / C. Karlin, S. Ploux, P. Bodu and N. Pigeot. 19. The transfer of knowledge within the craft industries and trade guilds / J. Perriault -- Pt. VII. Technological systems and ritualization. 20. From polished stone tool to sacred axe: the axes of the Danis of Irian Jaya, Indonesia / P. Petrequin and A.M. Petrequin. 21. How can we analyse and describe technical actions? / F. Sigaut.

ISBN

0198522630 (H'bk.) :

LCCN

92026903

OCLC

• 26552858
• ocm26552858

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries