Music in Human Evolution

“The point of the AVID (of which the haka is the best example) is: *To intimidate competitors with loud sounds. *To intimidate competitors visually. *To project the image of a single, powerful organism. Remember, the AVID would have been used for confrontational scavenging as well as defense against predators — and would have included rocks as physical weapons to fall back on when the intimidation display wasn’t perfectly effective as a non-contact defense.”