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The Singing Neanderthals Summary

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Anthropologists and archaeologists have paid little attention to the origin of music and musicality even language or arts. Although art has remained seen as a key of cognitive complexity and language as an essential tool of communication, music has suffered from our insight that it is an “epiphenomenal” ease activity and archaeologically inaccessible to boot. Music is the language of emotion. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen leads us to the science that might support such general concepts. Through equal parts scientific care and appeal, Mithen organizes current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and scavenging strategies, habits and brain capacity of all our hominid ancestors, from australopithecines
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