Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the
integration of diverse strands of evidence. In this paper, I present a comparative perspective …

Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to
have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of …

The sound of the theremin is familiar today, but imagine again going back a century, to the
world described above, and hearing that sonic purity of the two heterodyning oscillators so …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

The origins of modern human behavior are marked by increased symbolic and technological
complexity in the archaeological record. In western Eurasia this transition, the Upper …

Considerable debate surrounds claims for early evidence of music in the archaeological
record,,,,. Researchers universally accept the existence of complex musical instruments as …

Starke Bereiche der gegenwärtigen Philosophie stehen unter dem Zeichen des"
embodiment". So vielversprechend diese pragmatische Wende auch wirkt, so begrenzt …

Paleolithic archaeologists conceptualize the uniqueness of Homo sapiens in terms of
“behavioral modernity,” a quality often conflated with behavioral variability. The former is …

Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the
dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology …