Sometimes archaeologists can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods.
- Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
El hallazgo, que procede de depósitos de hace más de 60 000 años, se parece mucho a miles de puntas de flecha de hueso usadas por los cazadores-recolectores indígenas desde el siglo XVIII hasta el XX.
The artefact comes from deposits dated to more than 60,000 years ago. It closely resembles thousands of bone arrowheads used by the indigenous San hunter-gatherers from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
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The sounds our ancestors made are important because they teach us about spaces and behaviour and rituals of the time.
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
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