The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

production of implements or in scratches on anterior teeth (Toth 1985; Lalueza Fox and Frayer 1997),geographic expansion and exp ...

Falk,D.(1975).Comparative anatomy of the larynx in man and the chimpanzee: Implications for language in Neanderthal.American Jou ...

Lieberman,D.E.,McCarthy,R.C.,Hiiemae K.,Lieberman,P.,and Palmer,J.B.(1998). New estimates of fossil hominid vocal tract dimensio ...

Drago Kunej and Ivan Turk Abstract A flutelike perforated thighbone of a young cave bear was found in 1995 in solid breccia of l ...

After this introduction,questions and riddles raised by the recent find of a flutelike fragment of the thigh bone of a young cav ...

factors,adding to difficulties in classifying them in relation to their importance.One of these signals may be the “flute”from D ...

2.Aurignacian finds,among them a bone point with split base in layers 2 or 3 under the flowstone crust.The age of layer 2 was as ...

are completely reliable and are not debated in professional circles.Layer 8 contains remains of hearths and modest Paleolithic f ...

the letter V.The fracture extends from the end of the diaphysis to the suspected fifth hole.On the opposite,missing end of the b ...

found Upper Paleolithic bone flute with drilled holes from the open-air loess site of Grubgraben in Austria also has both ends f ...

molars are particularly adapted to compressive strength.Since carni- vores always chew a bone from the end,most such holes are c ...

The apparent hole,the only one on the anterior side of the diaphysis, is found below one of the complete holes and could therefo ...

lower canine is behind the upper,the remains of the hole on the ante- rior side,in relation to its displacement from the hole on ...

a solution:for example,completeness of the diaphysis,lack of impres- sions from opposing and neighboring teeth,the regular strin ...

This was confirmed experimentally,in which chipped holes did not have distinct traces of tools and were indistinguishable in gen ...

tion,such carnivores in cave dens were at least as active on bones,if not more so,than people in cave dwellings or shelters. How ...

time before this but had not been preserved because of nondurability of the material.The transition from a nondurable to a more ...

to formally recognized Paleolithic bone flutes,so it seems appropriate to reconstruct the damaged object and experimentally veri ...

250 Drago Kunej and Ivan Turk Figure 15.4 Archeological reconstructions of the pierced thigh bone as a flute.(a) A three-hole fl ...

and warmth from blowing,longitudinal cracks tended to appear on it and thus affect the acoustic properties.However,it best corre ...