A Lithic Origin for Music? Experimental Investigations into the Neuro-Auditory Resonance Hypothesis

这项提案旨在探索将音乐和乐器融入早期人类文化的文化和生物过程。具体来说，它的目的是调查一个新的“神经听觉共振假说”，最初提出的古艺术的起源。研究问题将通过对石器的材料特性、创造它们所涉及的技术以及工具制造所处的社会环境之间的相互联系进行实际调查来解决。特别是，本论文将集中在音乐和工具制作，无论是嘈杂的，抽象的和社会学习的做法，共同进化为相互加强的行为。

This proposal intends to explore the cultural and biological processes that incorporated music and musical instruments into the cultures of early hominins. Specifically it aims to investigate a novel "Neuro-Auditory Resonance Hypothesis", originally proposed to account for the origins of Palaeoart. The research questions will be addressed using practical investigations of interconnections between the material properties of stone tools, the techniques involved in creating them and the social environment in which toolmaking occurs. In particular,the thesis will focus on the idea that music and toolmaking, both noisy, percussive and socially learnedpractices, co-evolved as mutually reinforcing behaviours.