S23B



S23B

Room 3.20

Rhythm and ritual: New approaches to archaeoacoustics

Session organizers: George Harold Nash, Fernando Coimbra, Dragos Gheorghiu, Piotr Podlipniak, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka

S23B, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 3.20

9:00-9:20 - Introduction / Session organizers

9:20-9:40 - Was Stonehenge a theatre of performance? / George Nash

9:40-10:00 - Resonant Rhythms and Ritual Soundscapes: Reconsidering Membranophones in Funnel Beaker and Globular Amphora Cultures /

10:00-10:20 - Bamboo, Rhythm, and Resonance: Ethnomusicological Windows onto Prehistoric Soundscapes in the Philippines / Hermine Xhauflair, Maria Czarita A. Aguja

10:20-10:40 - Dancing Scenes in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Art: Some Unambiguous Examples / Fernando Coimbra

10:40-11:00 - Lip-Vibrated Aerophones On A Landscape Scale: A Preliminary View On Shell Trumpet Findings Distribution in Mediterranean Spain / Miquel López-Garcia, Margarita Díaz-Andreu

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Crafting Sound: Reconstructions of Early

Musical Technologies in Southeast Asia / Maria Czarita A. Aguja, Fredeliza Z. Campos, Juan C. Rofes, Ruben Claro A. Reyes IV , Hermine Xhauflair

11:50-12:10 - Lost Voices of Palawan’s Soundscape: Preliminary Archaeoacoustic Re-evaluation of the Leta Leta Pottery Assemblage / Jay Rone Acasio

12:10-12:30 - Giving Voice to Southeast Asian Bronze Drums. Preliminary Results of a Cross Interdisciplinary Study of Protohistoric and Modern Drums / Clémence Le Meur, Benoît Mille, René Caussé, Henri Boutin, Marie-Laure Chavazas

12:30-12:50 - Polyphony, Or How To Evoke An Ancient Soundscape / Dragos Gheorghiu

12:50-13:10 - Reconstructing Ritual Soundscapes: A Rhythmic and Archaeoacoustic Investigation of Instrument Classifications in Sri Lanka’s Pre-modernity / Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda

13:10-13:30 - Final debate

13:30-14:30 - Lunch