Acoustic Archaeology/ Archaeoacoustics (Other Keyword)

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Soundscapes in the Past: Towards a Phenomenology of Sound at the Landscape Level (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristy Primeau. David Witt.

During the past few decades, researchers have developed methodologies for understanding how past people have experienced their wider world. The majority of these reconstructions focused upon viewsheds and movement, illustrating how individuals visually observed their environment and navigated through it. However, these reconstructions have tended to ignore another sense which played a major role in how people experienced the wider, physical world: that of sound. While the topic of sound has been...