Journal
WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 292-304Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.909106
Keywords
Music; archaeology; sound; caves; Palaeolithic; acoustics; archaeoacoustics
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- AHRC [AH/K00607X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/K00607X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This article is focused on the ways that terminology describing the study of music and sound within archaeology has changed over time, and how this reflects developing methodologies, exploring the expectations and issues raised by the use of differing kinds of language to define and describe such work. It begins with a discussion of music archaeology, addressing the problems of using the term 'music' in an archaeological context. It continues with an examination of archaeoacoustics and acoustics, and an emphasis on sound rather than music. This leads on to a study of sound archaeology and soundscapes, pointing out that it is important to consider the complete acoustic ecology of an archaeological site, in order to identify its affordances, those possibilities offered by invariant acoustic properties. Using a case study from northern Spain, the paper suggests that all of these methodological approaches have merit, and that a project benefits from their integration.
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