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The Use of Tools by Human and Non-Human Primates

  • ISBN 9780198522638
  • Author: BERTHELET
  • Publ Date: 1993-03-25
  • Edition:
  • Binding: Hardback

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This volume brings together contributions on the theme of tools from international specialists in various disciplines - anatomists, neurobiologists, prehistorians, ethnologists and primatologists - at a symposium arranged by the Fyssen Foundation. Tools, whether of wood, stone or metal, are a prolongation of the arm, but they acquire precision through the hand directed by the brain. A movement may have been identical from one individual to another, in apes and in humans, in the past and in the present, but the resulting action varies according to the extended use of the tool. It is therefore necessary to understand the origin of tools, and also to be able to describe the techniques of cutting stones and to imagine the possible uses of certain tools. Comparison of the techniques of chimpanzees with those of prehistoric man made it possible to appreciate the common aspects and to identify the differences. The transmission of abililty and of the understanding also called apprenticeship, has been studied in the various relevant societies: chimpanzees in their natural habitat and in captivity, hunter-gatherers and workmen in prehistoric and in modern times.
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