The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body.BySteven Mithen.Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press.$25.95. ix + 374 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–674–02192–4.…

By Ian Tattersall. 2006

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Music

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• Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves (2009, background): “Thus, although we differ greatly on details, we agree with Mithen (2005) that proto-music played an important role in the lives of Neanderthals and other early humans.”