文档介绍：Darwin College Research Report
DCRR-002
The Evolutionary Origins
and Archaeology of Music
Iain Morley
October 2003
(electronic edition 12 January 2006)
Darwin College
Cambridge University
United Kingdom CB3 9EU
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ISSN 1749-9194
THE EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS
AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF MUSIC
or
An Investigation into the Prehistory of Human Musical
Capacities and Behaviours, Using Archaeological,
Anthropological, Cognitive and Behavioural Evidence
by
Iain Morley . . .,
Trinity Hall,
Cambridge
Originally submitted to the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology
in candidacy for admission to the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy of Cambridge University
October 2003
The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music Iain Morley
ABSTRACT
The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music: An Investigation
into the Prehistory of Human Musical Capacities and Behaviours
The research presented in this dissertation examines the evidence for the emergence of the
capacities underlying musical behaviours, their interrelationship, development and ultimate
manifestation in the Palaeolithic. A multidisciplinary approach is taken, and the dissertation falls
into four main sections.
Section I reviews and analyses ethnographic evidence regarding the use of music in four
hunter-gatherer societies. It highlights a number of fundamental similarities between their musics,
suggesting shared heritage or convergent development. In these traditions melody is predominantly
vocal; instruments are primarily percussive, made anic materials, and thus unlikely to leave
an archaeological trace.
Section prises prehensive synthesis of the archaeological evidence for use of
musical instruments in the Palaeolithic. The earliest currently known instruments date to c. 36,000
years ago; the evidence suggests that when