Musical Performance In the Stone Age

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
New research shows that music may have played an integral part of the enjoyment of pre-historic cave paintings. A French archaeologist, using his voice to vocalize, found that the areas with the densest concentration of paintings were also the most acoustically resonant parts of the caves. Jennifer Viega of Discovery News explains.

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