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Prehistoric Music - BBC Radio 4 Frontiers

Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 22 October 2003  Page Views: 7124

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Recent discoveries of bone flutes suggest that man was making music forty thousand years ago. Peter Evans visits a Palaeolithic cave to see evidence of our ancestors' musicality. Even playing stalactites came into their repertoire!

But could man's musical abilities have developed much earlier than this - more than two hundred thousand years ago?

'Yes' argues archaeologist Iain Morley. His research suggests our musical voice developed as we started walking on two legs. And this happened about 1.75 million years ago.

Music therapist Nigel Osborne and psychologist Colwyn Trevarthen push our innate musicality even further back. They believe our reaction to music is based on an intuitive mechanism evolved over billions of years.

Could this intuitive response explain why babies react to music so positively?

Listen to the programme from the Radio 4 web site
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Re: Prehistoric Music - BBC Radio 4 Frontiers by Anonymous on Monday, 14 February 2005
it is clear to me music was not created it was the creator a great sound wave blast of energy which life based upon was the beginning and we have destroyed it through pop and high culture societies however i still feel the first rhythm and will transcribe it one day soon for all and once again the world will be
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