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Sounds of the blue daemon: A new aural study of the Etruscan Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri, 450–420 BCE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The archaeological record of ancient Etruria suggests that different sounds were significant across sacred and secular settings. This is represented in everything from surviving musical instruments to vibrant images of musical performance and religious ...
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva   +1 more
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Sounding Situated Knowledges: Echo in Archaeoacoustics [PDF]

open access: yesParallax, 2017
This article proposes that feminist epistemologies via Donna Haraway's “Situated Knowledges” can be productively brought to bear upon theories of sonic knowledge production, as “sounding situated knowledges.” Sounding situated knowledges re-reads debates around the “nature of sound” with a Harawayan notion of the “natureculture of sound.” This aims to ...
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Archaeoacoustic analysis of Poggio Rota Stone Circle in Tuscany, Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Poggio Rota Stone Circle was discovered in recent times (2004) by an Italian researcher Giovanni Feo, an Etruscan civilization expert. The studies conducted at the site, which also involved researchers from Italian universities assumed that the megaliths
Giovanni Feo   +3 more
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Archaeoacoustic Analysis of the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Recently we studied the acoustic properties of the underground Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta. Identified as "architecture in the negative", it is a unique prehistoric complex, intentionally sculpted with features that mirror megalithic temples
Linda Eneix   +2 more
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Ringing stones in Sweden in the past and present : some reflections

open access: yes, 2019
This paper addresses the archaeoacoustic subject of ringing rocks, chiefly from a Swedish perspective. Comprehensive and methodological studies on ringing stones in Sweden were not begun until the early 2000s, in the first instance by researchers at ...
Lund, Cajsa S.,
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Definitive Results of Archaeoacoustic Analysis at Alatri Acropolis, Italy

open access: yes, 2018
The town of Alatri is nestled among the hills one hundred miles southeast of Rome, Italy. It features a Cyclopean acropolis on the peak of the hill it sits on.
Tarabella Natalia   +3 more
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Archaeoastronomy at Kanda geoglyph, Macedonia

open access: yes, 2016
This paper extends our previous research of an artificial mound in Kanda (Macedonia) from an archaeoastronomical point of view. In two previous papers, SB Research Group explained its archaeoacoustic research and established the existence of several ...
DEBERTOLIS, PAOLO   +5 more
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The ancient knowledge of sound. Archaeoacoustic analysis of the Pyramid of Bomarzo and the surrounding areas in Lazio, Italy

open access: yes, 2018
The term "archaeoacoustics" does not simply mean the study of sound in archaeological contexts, but also the study of all physical phenomena in these sites. Using an archaeoacoustic approach it is possible to measure the frequencies of natural sounds and
DEBERTOLIS Paolo, TARABELLA Natalia
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The development of acoustics in the religious architecture of Cairo from the Arab conquest through the Ottoman period 640-1914

open access: yes, 2016
It is strongly believed that the scholarship in the field of Islamic art and architecture ‎still has many important under-researched areas, behind its visual aspects, that need to ‎be explored and analyzed. Archaeoacoustics, which is scientifically known
Hussein, Ahmad
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Archaeoacoustics in ancient civilizations. How to approach this new complementary discipline to archaeology.

open access: yes, 2017
Archaeoacoustics is a relatively new approach to analyze any archaeological sites that has interesting acoustic characteristics. It can be used to demonstrate sound occurrences believed to have been incorporated into the design by the architects of ...
DEBERTOLIS, PAOLO, Earl, Nina
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