Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Audio effects are an essential tool that the field of music production relies upon. The ability to
intentionally manipulate and modify a piece of sound has opened up considerable …

Acoustics has been integrated with archaeology to better understand the social and cultural
context of past cultures. Specifically, public events such as rituals or ceremonies, where an …

Palaeolithic stone plaquettes are a type of mobiliary art featuring engravings and recovered
primarily from Magdalenian sites, where they can number from single finds to several …

This paper explores the acoustics of three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: five caves in
Spain that feature prehistoric paintings that are up to 40,000 years old; Stonehenge stone …

Since the 1980s, research into aggregation sites has focused on the material dimension of
the archaeological record and has thus led to an incomplete view of the prehistoric reality …

Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to
understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and …

Early modern humans developed mental capabilities that were immeasurably greater than
those of non-human primates. We see this in the rapid innovation in tool making, the …

This article is focused on the ways that terminology describing the study of music and sound
within archaeology has changed over time, and how this reflects developing methodologies …

Approaches to Palaeolithic art have increasingly shifted beyond the traditional focus on
engraved or depicted forms in isolation, to appreciating the sensorial experience of art …