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Archaeoacoustics

Title
Archaeoacoustics / edited by Chris Scarre & Graeme Lawson.
Publication
Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; Oakville, CT : Distributed by the David Brown Book Co., [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Scarre, Christopher.
  • Lawson, Graeme.
  • McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Description
ix, 126 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Series Statement
McDonald Institute monographs, 1363-1349
Uniform Title
McDonald Institute monographs.
Subject
  • Archaeology
  • Music archaeology
  • Sound
  • Archäologie
  • Akustik
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
Sound, place and space : towards an archaeology of acoustics / Chris Scarre -- (Un)intentional sound? Acoustics in Neolithic monuments / Aaron Watson -- Ears & years : aspects of acoustics and intentionality in antiquity / Paul Devereux -- Intentionality of rock-art placement deduced from acoustical measurements and echo myths / Steven J. Waller -- The sound paradox : how to assess the acoustic significance of archaeological evidence? / Francesco d'Errico & Graeme Lawson -- The Scandinavian bronze lurs : accident or intent? / Peter Holmes -- Theatres and theatre design in the Graeco-Roman world : theoretical and empirical approaches / Eleonora Rocconi -- The evidence of the use of sound resonance from Palaeolithic to Medieval times / Iegor Reznikoff -- Large scale-small scale : Medieval stone buildings, early Medieval timber halls and the problem of the lyre / Graeme Lawson -- Hunter-gatherer music and its implicationss for identifyinig intentionality in the use of acoustic space / Iain Morley -- Acoustics and the human experience of socially-organized sound / Ian Cross & Aaron Watson -- The origin of music and rhythm / Ezra B.W. Zubrow & Elizabeth C. Blake.
ISBN
  • 9781902937359
  • 190293735X
LCCN
2006283854
OCLC
  • ocm69674019
  • SCSB-5273411
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries