• 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

'this compendium includes some informative chapters on assorted topics relating to tool use in nonhuman and human primates'Sandra T. deBlois, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, American Journal of Primatology 33