Cave acoustics in prehistory: Exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response
Cave acoustics in prehistory: Exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response
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DOI：
10.1121/1.4998721
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
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2.4
通讯作者：
Foulds, Frederick
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作者：
Fazenda, Bruno;Scarre, Chris;Foulds, Frederick
在20世纪80年代，法国洞穴中旧石器时代晚期图像的声学研究-使用当时可用的技术-提出了声学响应和视觉图案位置之间的关系。本文介绍了一个调查，使用现代声学测量技术，到这种关系内的La Garma，拉斯维加斯Chimeneas，La Pasiega，埃尔卡斯蒂略，和蒂托Bustillo在北方西班牙的洞穴。它解决了封闭的考古遗址声学测量的方法学问题，并概述了一个总体框架，可用于支持考古假设的声学特征提取。该分析探讨了视觉图案（可能高达40 000岁）和本地化的声学响应的位置之间可能存在的关联。结果表明，图案，在一般情况下，线和点，特别是统计上更有可能被发现的地方，混响是温和的，低频声学响应有证据的共振行为。这项工作表明，旧石器时代图案的位置与声学特征的关联是一个统计上薄弱但站得住脚的假设，并且声音的欣赏可能会影响该地区旧石器时代社会的行为。(C)2017年作者。
During the 1980 s, acoustic studies of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves-using the technology then available-suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual motifs. This paper presents an investigation, using modern acoustic measurement techniques, into such relationships within the caves of La Garma, Las Chimeneas, La Pasiega, El Castillo, and Tito Bustillo in Northern Spain. It addresses methodological issues concerning acoustic measurement at enclosed archaeological sites and outlines a general framework for extraction of acoustic features that may be used to support archaeological hypotheses. The analysis explores possible associations between the position of visual motifs (which may be up to 40 000 yrs old) and localized acoustic responses. Results suggest that motifs, in general, and lines and dots, in particular, are statistically more likely to be found in places where reverberation is moderate and where the low frequency acoustic response has evidence of resonant behavior. The work presented suggests that an association of the location of Palaeolithic motifs with acoustic features is a statistically weak but tenable hypothesis, and that an appreciation of sound could have influenced behavior among Palaeolithic societies of this region. (C) 2017 Author(s).