S23A



S23A

Room 3.19

The prehistory of visual arts, music, and language / La préhistoire des arts visuels, de la musique et du langage

Session organizers: Piotr Podlipniak, Larissa Straffon, Svetlana Kuleshova, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka

S23A​, Fri Sep 4 2026, 9:00 - 12:30, Room 3.19

9:00-9:20 - Introduction by session organizers

9:20-9:40 - How affordant selection structures lithic assemblages and reveals technical logic: implications for interpreting prehistoric cognition, the case of the Aldène assemblage (Hérault, France) / Svetlana Kuleshova; Olivier Notter; Elena Rossoni-Notter; Éric Boëda

9:40-10:00 - Inferring Prehistoric Musical Practices Through Multiproxy Analysis of Ethnographic Rattles with Ostrich Eggshell Contents / Hannah Keller; Alain Queffelec; Francesco D’Errico

10:00-10:20 - Art, What Is It Good For? Contextualising Neanderthal and Homo sapiens Visual Art Practices / Larissa Straffon

10:20-10:40 - Archaeoacoustics of Early Human Environments: Long‑Distance Signaling and the Roots of Music / Piotr Podlipniak

10:40-11:00 - Comparing the Prehistoric Rock-Art Records of India and Sri Lanka / Kanishka Sumanadasa

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Early Musical Instruments in Sri Lanka: Between Myth and Reality / Nishadi Prageetha Meddegoda

11:50-12:10 - Echoes of the Palaeolithic: Musical Instruments and the Rise of Human Musicality / Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka; Piotr Podlipniak

12:10-12:30 - Discussion