%0 Journal Article %T Acoustics in Music Archaeology: Re-souding the Marsoulas conch and its cave. %+ Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société de Toulouse (MSHS-T) %+ Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) %A Kolar, Miriam, A. %A Fritz, Carole %A Tosello, Gilles %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1557-0215 %J Acoustics Today %S Summer 2022 %V 18 %N 2 %P 52-61 %8 2022-06-18 %D 2022 %K Rock art %K Acoustic %K Marsoulas cave %K Palaleolithic %Z Humanities and Social Sciences %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing artsJournal articles %X Music archaeology grapples with the challenge of recovering clues about purposeful soundmaking by humans in contexts distinct from those today. Thousands of years before written language, although at the same time as graphical artworks such as wall paintings, engravings, and sculptures, humans made music as evinced by the discovery of 35,000-year-old bone flutes discovered in caves of the Swabian Jura from the Aurignacian period (see bit.ly/3ITVDQC). Musical instruments are considered the most specific form of archaeological evidence for humans’ nonverbal sonic expression. Therefore, musical acoustics research can aid in evaluating sounds that archaeologically evidenced instruments could make. However, explorations of instrument acoustics alone cannot reconstruct ancient music; the places where music was made are indicators about many aspects of musical behaviors as well as experiences that can be related to spatial acoustics. %G English %L hal-03709981 %U https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03709981 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-TLSE2 %~ CNRS %~ EHESS %~ TRACES %~ AO-MUSICOLOGIE