The Use of Tools by Human and Non-human Primates

List of participants ; Introduction ; 1. Primate hands and the human hand: the tool of tools ; 2. The hand and the tool: the functional architecture of human technical skills ; 3. Control of the monkey's hand by the motor cortex ; 4. Human prehension and its prosthetic substitution ; 5. Some one- and two-handed functions and processes in tool-use by pongids ; 6. Cognitive competence underlying tool-use in free-ranging orang-utans ; 7. Tool use in a South American monkey species. An overview of the characteristics and limits of tool use in Cebus apella ; 8. Brains, hands, and minds: puzzling incongruences in ape tool-use ; 9. Tool-use and tool-making in wild chimpanzees ; 10. Local variation of tools and tool-use among wild chimpanzee populations ; 11. The earliest stone tools: their implications for an understanding of the activities and behaviour of late Pliocene hominids ; 12. Are we able to determine the function of the earliest palaeolithic tools? ; 13. The origin of secondary tools ; 14. The origin of tool-use and the evolution of social space in palaeolithic times: some reflections ; 15. Ecological determinism, group strategies, and individual decisions in the conception of prehistoric stone assemblages ; 16. Tools and hunter-gatherers ; 17. A framework for analysing prehistoric stone tool manufacture and a tentative application to some early stone industries ; 18. Some socio-economic aspects of the knapping process among groups of hunter-gatherers in the Paris Basin area ; 19. The transfer of knowledge within the craft industries and trade guilds ; 20. From polished stone tool to sacred axe: the axes of the Danis of Irian Jaya, Indonesia ; 21. How can we analyse and describe technical acts? ; Epilogue ; Author index ; Subject index