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Prehistoric music (previously called primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history.^[1]

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Acoustics

Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics (ἀήρ aero (air) + δυναμική (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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Aerophone

An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Airfoil

An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is a streamlined body that is capable of generating significantly more lift than drag.

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Ancient music

Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of prehistoric societies and lasting until the Post-classical era.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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Antler

Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family.

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Apex (mollusc)

In anatomy, an apex (adjectival form: apical) is part of the shell of a mollusk.

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Archaeoacoustics

Archaeoacoustics is a sub-field of archaeology and acoustics which studies the relationship between people and sound throughout history.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Aulos

An aulos (plural auloi; αὐλός, plural αὐλοί) or tibia (Latin) was a wind instrument in ancient Greece, often depicted in art and also attested by archaeology.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian magpie

The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, and the Fijian island of Taveuni.

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Đàn brố

The bro is a traditional musical instrument of the Bahnar, Sedang, Rhađe, Jarai, and Giẻ Xtiêng peoples of the Central Vietnam Highlands.

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Baby talk

Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child or infant.

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Bastet

Bastet or Bast (bꜣstjt, Oubaste, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: ’bst, or 𐤁𐤎𐤕, romanized: bst) is a goddess of ancient Egyptian religion possibly of Nubian origin, worshipped as early as the Second Dynasty (2890 BC).

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Bat (goddess)

Bat is a cow goddess in Egyptian mythology who was depicted as a human face with cow ears and horns or as a woman.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Behavioral modernity

Behavioral modernity is a suite of behavioral and cognitive traits believed to distinguish current Homo sapiens from other anatomically modern humans, hominins, and primates.

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Birch bark

Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula.

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Blowing horn

The blowing horn or winding horn is a sound device that is usually made of or shaped like an animal horn, arranged to blow from a hole in the pointed end of it. Prehistoric music and blowing horn are Ethnomusicology.

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Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

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Bullroarer

The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.

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Carving

Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material.

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Cave bear

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures.

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Chant

A chant (from French chanter, from Latin cantare, "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.

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Charonia lampas

Charonia lampas is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Charoniidae.

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Chinese musicology

Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music.

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Clapper (musical instrument)

A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument.

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Clapping

A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals.

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Clapstick

Clapsticks, also spelt clap sticks and also known as bilma, bimli, clappers, musicstick or just stick, are a traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument.

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Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.

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Click consonant

Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.

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Cooperative breeding

Cooperative breeding is a social system characterized by alloparental care: offspring receive care not only from their parents, but also from additional group members, often called helpers.

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Cough

A cough is a sudden expulsion of air through the large breathing passages which can help clear them of fluids, irritants, foreign particles and microbes.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Cycladic culture

Cycladic culture (also known as Cycladic civilisation or, chronologically, as Cycladic chronology) was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.

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Dance

Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.

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Didgeridoo

The didgeridoo (also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.

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Divje Babe flute

The Divje Babe flute, also called tidldibab, is a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was unearthed in 1995 during systematic archaeological excavations led by the Institute of Archaeology of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, at the Divje Babe I near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. Prehistoric music and Divje Babe flute are ancient music.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Drum stick

A drum stick (or drumstick) is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.

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Egyptians

Egyptians (translit,; translit,; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt.

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End-blown flute

The end-blown flute (also called an edge-blown flute or rim-blown flute) is a woodwind instrument played by directing an airstream against the sharp edge of the upper end of a tube.

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Ethnopoetics

Ethnopoetics is a method of recording text versions of oral poetry or narrative performances (i.e. verbal lore) that uses poetic lines, verses, and stanzas (instead of prose paragraphs) to capture the formal, poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the written texts.

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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.

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Evolutionary musicology

Evolutionary musicology is a subfield of biomusicology that grounds the cognitive mechanisms of music appreciation and music creation in evolutionary theory. Prehistoric music and evolutionary musicology are cognitive musicology.

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Evolutionary origin of religion

The evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, and cross-cultural comparison of the anthropology of religion.

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ʿAin Mallaha

ʿAin Mallaha (عين ملاحة) or Eynan (עינן) was an Epipalaeolithic settlement belonging to the Natufian culture, occupied circa 14,326–12,180 cal. BP.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Geissenklösterle

Geissenklösterle (Geißenklösterle) is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany.

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Geoffrey Miller (psychologist)

Geoffrey Franklin Miller (born 1965) is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico.

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Geological history of Earth

The geological history of the Earth follows the major geological events in Earth's past based on the geological time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock layers (stratigraphy).

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Gourd

Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria.

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Gudi (instrument)

The Jiahu gǔdí are the oldest known musical instruments from China, dating back to around 6000 BCE.

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Handicap principle

The handicap principle is a disputed hypothesis proposed by the Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi in 1975.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Hathor

Hathor (lit, Ἁθώρ, ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles.

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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Hide (skin)

A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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History of music

Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal.

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Hohle Fels

The Hohle Fels (also Hohlefels, Hohler Fels, German for "hollow rock") is a cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany that has yielded a number of important archaeological finds dating from the Upper Paleolithic.

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Hominini

The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines).

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.

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Humming

A hum is a sound made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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Imitation of sounds in shamanism

Shamanism in various cultures shows great diversity.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

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International Study Group on Music Archaeology

The International Study Group on Music Archaeology (ISGMA) is a study group of researchers who carry out research in the field of music archaeology. Prehistoric music and International Study Group on Music Archaeology are ancient music.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg (December 11, 1931 – April 21, 2024) was an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry.

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Jiahu

Jiahu was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River.

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K'ni

The k'ni, also known as mim or memm in Cambodia, popularly known as a mouth violin is a mouth resonator fiddle, i.e. a fiddle-like instrument used by the Jarai people in Vietnam and Tampuan people in Cambodia.

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Kaluli people

The Kaluli are a clan of indigenous peoples who live in the rain forests of the Great Papuan Plateau in Papua New Guinea.

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Keros

Keros (Κέρος; anciently, Keria or Kereia (Κέρεια)) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos.

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Lip (gastropod)

In the shell of gastropod mollusks (a snail shell), the lip is the free margin of the peristome (synonym: peritreme) or aperture (the opening) of the gastropod shell.

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List of Australian Aboriginal group names

This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Aboriginal Australians.

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Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write.

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Lithophone

A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes.

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Lyre

The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Magdalenian

The Magdalenian cultures (also Madelenian; French: Magdalénien) are later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in western Europe.

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Mbira

Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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Migration Period

The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Music archaeology

Music archaeology is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines musicology and archaeology.

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Music semiology

Music semiology (semiotics) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Neuroscience of music

The neuroscience of music is the scientific study of brain-based mechanisms involved in the cognitive processes underlying music. Prehistoric music and neuroscience of music are cognitive musicology.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Noise

Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties.

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Old Kingdom of Egypt

In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning –2200 BC.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Origin of language

The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Paleolithic flute

During regular archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany. Prehistoric music and Paleolithic flute are ancient music.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Phalanx bone

The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.

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Plains Indians

Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North America.

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Prehistoric art

In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events. Prehistoric music and prehistoric art are prehistory.

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Prehistoric Egypt

Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.

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Prehistory

Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

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Rasp

A rasp is a coarse form of file used for coarsely shaping wood or other material.

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Rattle (percussion instrument)

A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.

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Ravanahatha

A ravanahaththa (variant names: ravanhatta, rawanhattha, ravanastron, ravana hasta veena) is an ancient bowed, stringed instrument, used in India, Sri Lanka, and surrounding areas.

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Red-crowned crane

The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), also called the Manchurian crane (the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". Prehistoric music and rhythm are cognitive musicology.

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Ringing rocks

Ringing rocks, also known as sonorous rocks or lithophonic rocks, are rocks that resonate like a bell when struck.

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Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.

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Signalling theory

Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across species.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.

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Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Songbird

A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound mimesis in various cultures

The imitation of natural sounds in various cultures is a diverse phenomenon and can fill in various functions. Prehistoric music and sound mimesis in various cultures are Ethnomusicology.

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Sound symbolism

In linguistics, sound symbolism is the perceptual similarity between speech sounds and concept meanings.

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Soundscape

A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context.

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Stone circle

A stone circle is a ring of standing stones.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Sun Dance

The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Canada, primarily those of the Plains cultures.

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Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura

Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura (née Vantoura; 13 July 1912 – 22 October 2000) was a French organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Torres Strait Islanders

Torres Strait Islanders are the Indigenous Melanesian people of the Torres Strait Islands, which are part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Ulm

Ulm is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Venus of Hohle Fels

The Venus of Hohle Fels (also known as the Venus of Schelklingen; in German variously Venus vom Hohlen Fels, vom Hohle Fels; Venus von Schelklingen) is an Upper Paleolithic Venus figurine made of mammoth ivory that was unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave near Schelklingen, Germany, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Whistle

A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.

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Whistling

Whistling, without the use of an artificial whistle, is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space.

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White-browed sparrow-weaver

The white-browed sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser mahali) is a predominantly brown, sparrow-sized bird found throughout central and north-central southern Africa.

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Wicklow

Wicklow (Cill Mhantáin, meaning 'church of the toothless one'; Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland.

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Wood

Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Xiazhi

Xiàzhì is the 10th solar term, and marks the summer solstice, in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar dividing a year into 24 solar terms.

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Yawn

A yawn is a reflex in vertebrate animals characterized by a long inspiratory phase with gradual mouth gaping, followed by a brief climax (or acme) with muscle stretching, and a rapid expiratory phase with muscle relaxation, which typically lasts a few seconds.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_music

Also known as Music (Archaeology), Prehistoric European music, Prehistory of music, Primitive music.

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