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archaeoacoustics

archaeoacoustics noun: the study of the role of sound in historical artifacts and sites.

Noun

archaeoacoustics (uncountable)

  1. The study of the role of sound in historical artifacts and sites.
    • In the nascent science of archeoacoustics, experts test the ancient sites for locations of "sonic intensity": echoes, rocks that gong when struck, etc.2007, Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, Graywolf Press
    • Interestingly, the field of archaeoacoustics suggests that the design of sound- shaping sculptures by humans may have a much longer history than previously thought.2014, Nina Levent, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 98
  2. The theory that patterns on ancient artifacts encode the sounds produced while they were being created, now considered a pseudoscience.

Origin of archaeoacoustics

From archaeo- + acoustics.

Questions about archaeoacoustics

What does archaeoacoustics mean?
Archaeoacoustics means the study of the role of sound in historical artifacts and sites.
What part of speech is archaeoacoustics?
Archaeoacoustics is a noun.

Words near archaeoacoustics in the dictionary

  1. archaelogical
  2. archaemetzincin
  3. archaemetzincins
  4. archaeo-
  5. archaeoacoustic
  6. archaeoacoustics
  7. archaeoastronomer
  8. archaeoastronomers
  9. archaeoastronomical
  10. archaeoastronomy
  11. archaeobalanid

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