Archaeoacoustics

Archaeoacoustics focuses on the role of sound in human behaviour, from earliest times up to the development of mechanical detection and recording devices in the 19th century.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Chris Scarre is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham and a specialist in the later prehistory of western Europe. His research interests include the relationship of prehistoric monuments to their landscape setting and the use of colour and sound in prehistoric societies. Recent publications include Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe (ed) (2002) and The Human Past (ed) (2005). Dr Graeme Lawson has played a leading role in the developing archaeology of acoustical behaviours, focussing especially on the nature and origins of music tradition and on experiment as a means of evaluating ancient acoustic structures.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Graeme Lawson, Christopher Scarre
• Mitarbeit: Graeme Lawson (Herausgeber), Chris Scarre (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2006
• Seiten: 118
• Abmessung: 220 mm x 285 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 767 g
• Serie: McDonald Institute Monographs
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte