Auditory archaeology considers the potential contribution of everyday, mundane and
unintentional sounds in the past and how these may have been significant to people. Steve …

This is an attempt to describe and explain so-called timbre-based music as a special system
of musicking, communication, and psychological and social usage, which along with its …

Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the
lead of evolutionary linguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain …

A very popular, yet barely researched, musical instrument is Jew's harp (aka Jaw harp, JH).
Its earliest archeological occurrences date back to the early Bronze Age, but its simplest …

Though it operates on the margins of the Norwegian folk music scene, the munnharpe (jew's
harp) revival has been active since the 1960s and today boasts an active network of …

In 1797 the first discovery of Scandinavian Bronze Age horns, the so called lurs, was made
in Denmark. Naturally, a great deal of attention has been devoted to these impressive …

The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains
one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that …

In 1999 archaeologists excavated a section of the Hellweg, a medieval road near the
present city of Paderborn in northern Germany. In the rubble of the road, which was an …

The Jew's harp is unique among instruments, and in its apparent simplicity it is deceptive. It
has been adapted to a wide array of cultural contexts worldwide and a diverse range of …

This paper provides a review of the contribution of sound to our theoretical and
methodological approaches to archaeology and for the innovative and engaging …