# Archeology and music

**URL:** <https://forum.podcaster.community/t/archeology-and-music/4425>\
**Category:** Workbench\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/archeology-and-music/4425 "2025-01-15T15:38:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/archeology-and-music/4425/1 "2025-01-15T15:38:14Z")

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Simply sound-related things today: An image of a babbling brook and archeology…

> It is possible that some 8,000 years ago, in this acoustically resonant haven, people not only hid from passing coastal thunderstorms, they may have used this place to commune with their dead—using music. That’s a possibility hinted at in the work of archaeologist Joshua Kumbani, of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and his colleagues. ~ Sarah Wild, from [What Did the Stone Age Sound Like?](https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-sound-tools/)

Seems obvious that archeology would be interested in sound— but I’d never thought of that aspect of it before.

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