Where Did Art and Music Come From?

Nicholas Conard, an excavator at the University of Tueblingen in Germany, spoke at the Smithsonian about the origins of art. He is studying the evolution of art and music, excavating paleolithic figurines and prehistoric flutes. Conard is looking at how, when and where cultural innovations evolved. What inspired these humans to make time, after dealing with [...]

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