Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics [PDF]
Journal of CognitionHearing the remote past seems impossible. Archaeoacoustics is a contemporary field intent on reconstructing the evolution of early communication systems, offering the possibility of developing methodologies relating to past sound signaling and music ...
Victoria Pham, Roland Fletcher
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Archaeoacoustics around the World: A Literature Review (2016–2022)
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2023 Acoustics has been integrated with archaeology to better understand the social and cultural context of past cultures. Specifically, public events such as rituals or ceremonies, where an appreciation of sound propagation was required to hold an event ...
Gustavo Navas-Reascos +1 more
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Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai) [PDF]
Open Archaeology, 2023 In this article, the potential of archaeoacoustics for understanding past communities is discussed by looking at a range of acoustic parameters. Our case study is the Urkosh rock art area in the Ongudai district, Republic of Altai (Russia).
Margarita Díaz-Andreu +2 more
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An Archaeoacoustics Analysis of Cistercian Architecture: The Case of the Beaulieu Abbey [PDF]
Acoustics, 2021 The Cistercian order is of acoustic interest because previous research has hypothesized that Cistercian architectural structures were designed for longer reverberation times in order to reinforce Gregorian chants.
Sebastian Duran +2 more
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Sounding Situated Knowledges: Echo in Archaeoacoustics [PDF]
Parallax, 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 ...
Annie Goh
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Ethnohistorical sources in archaeoacoustics research:
Exploring Ancient Sounds and PlacesThis article explores the use of ethnohistoric data for the understandings of the acoustic and sound-world of rock art sites. A discussion on the complexities of using ethnohistorical documents in the study of rock art and archaeoacoustics is made using Yokuts rock art as a case study.
Alarcón-Jiménez, Ana-María +2 more
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The documentation of archaeoacoustics identity of Sultan-Barquq complex
AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2020 Sultan-Barquq complex is considered to be the most compact and unified Islamic Mamluk monuments in Cairo. In addition to its main function as a place of prayer, its design allows separate schools for teaching the four Sunni rites.
Khalid S Al-Hagla
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Acoustic perception and emotion evocation by rock art soundscapes of Altai (Russia). [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 The major goal of psychoarchaeoacoustics is to understand the psychology behind motivations and emotions of past communities when selecting certain acoustic environments to set activities involving the production of paintings and carvings.
López-Mochales S +3 more
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Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness, and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 In western cultures, when it comes to places of worship and liturgies, music, acoustics and architecture go hand in hand. In the present study, we aimed to investigate whether the emotions evoked by music are enhanced by the acoustics of the space where ...
López-Mochales S +5 more
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Psychology Meets Archaeology: Psychoarchaeoacoustics for Understanding Ancient Minds and Their Relationship to the Sacred. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 How important is the influence of spatial acoustics on our mental processes related to sound perception and cognition? There is a large body of research in fields encompassing architecture, musicology, and psychology that analyzes human response, both ...
Valenzuela J, Díaz-Andreu M, Escera C.
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