<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bril, Blandine</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parry, Ross</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dietrich, Gilles</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">How similar are nut-cracking and stone-flaking? A functional approach to percussive technology</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10/2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1682/20140355.abstract</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">370</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Various authors have suggested similarities between tool use in early hominins and chimpanzees. This has been particularly evident in studies of nut-cracking which is considered to be the most complex skill exhibited by wild apes, and has also been interpreted as a precursor of more complex stone-flaking abilities. It has been argued that there is no major qualitative difference between what the chimpanzee does when he cracks a nut and what early hominins did when they detached a flake from a core. In this paper, similarities and differences between skills involved in stone-flaking and nut-cracking are explored through an experimental protocol with human subjects performing both tasks. We suggest that a ‘functional’ approach to percussive action, based on the distinction between functional parameters that characterize each task and parameters that characterize the agent&#039;s actions and movements, is a fruitful method for understanding those constraints which need to be mastered to perform each task successfully, and subsequently, the nature of skill involved in both tasks.&lt;/p&gt;
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