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Sinead, Music and Stone Age Economics

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Leskau Caves

Archaeologists discovered cave paintings in the Leskau Caves. There are over 600 of these paintings and they're largely of animals. So people thought this was interesting, obviously a hunting. This is the first known evidence of human art. But it's when Igor went into the caves in the 1970s he realized that the paintings weren't random. The paintings were located at the most acoustically sensitive part of the cave. These people were singing to the images, right? They didn't just paint these things randomly. They painted them as you would do in a medieval altar on an altar. Now we think is that the humans were chanting in order to get themselves in the zone for

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