January 29, 2005
The soundtrack of the Stone Age. The summer of 2004 has seen interesting discoveries in Canada and India that highlight a new branch of archæological research – archæoacoustics.
Fascinating.
interesting, there`s probably places where the wind was also a factor in creating sounds in canyons,as in the southwest US and prehistoric people covered with petroglyphs.
Who knows what lies, or use to lie, under Lake Powell
This is very intriguing, and I'd like to know more about it. Thanks, homunculus!
Fascinating to think of drumbeats or horns being played at these sites. And I bet if that were the case, then the human voice was in it as well. I wonder if they had poetry being recited? Or songs?
Thanks for the links, Pallas Athene!
Well, if some of the sites
have a resonant frequency (at which sounds naturally echo and reverberate) of about 110hz - the frequency of the male baritone voice,
and since (we think) an important way of keeping laws and customs in the collective memory was through oral repetition, then, almost certainly, they would have been in poetic form. Maybe there were even special poems for the dead.
I mean, if you build a burial mound with a great acoustic and then don't chant verses, what kind of Druid are you?
A muted
Druid?
the mayans were hip to this also
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