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Feature The Singing Neanderthals : the Origins of Music , Language , Mind and Body by

@inproceedings{Mithen2005FeatureTS,
  title={Feature The Singing Neanderthals : the Origins of Music , Language , Mind and Body by},
  author={S. Mithen},
  year={2005}
}

• S. Mithen
• Published 2005

Anthropologists and archaeologists have paid little attention to the origin of music and musicality — far less than for either language or ‘art’. While art has been seen as an index of cognitive complexity and language as an essential tool of communication, music has suffered from our perception that it is an epiphenomenal ‘leisure activity’, and archaeologically inaccessible to boot. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to Steven Mithen; music is integral to human social life, he… Expand

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