On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)

Over the past two decades, scholars have proposed the existence of a strong relationship between sound, acoustics, and the production of San rock art in certain places. However, this intriguing hypothesis had never been tested through the systematic application of a rigorous method to a substantial...

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Autores: Santos da Rosa, Neemias, Álvarez Morales, Carmen Lidia, Moreno Iglesias, Diego, Laue, Ghilraen, Díaz Andreu, Margarita
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Fecha de publicación:2025
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Palavra-chave:Archaeoacoustics
Impulse response
San rock art
South Africa
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spelling On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)Santos da Rosa, NeemiasÁlvarez Morales, Carmen LidiaMoreno Iglesias, DiegoLaue, GhilraenDíaz Andreu, MargaritaArchaeoacousticsImpulse responseSan rock artSouth AfricaOver the past two decades, scholars have proposed the existence of a strong relationship between sound, acoustics, and the production of San rock art in certain places. However, this intriguing hypothesis had never been tested through the systematic application of a rigorous method to a substantial sample of sites. In this paper, we present an unprecedented archaeoacoustic study conducted at 27 shelters with San paintings located in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa). The results obtained through the use of the impulse response (IR) method indicate that such a relationship should not be considered a pattern, but a circumstantial occurrence identified only in specific parts of the South African territory. Drawing on these data, we suggest that in our study area, the choice of sites to be painted may have been predominantly influenced by ontological beliefs concerning how the San perceived the shelters and the surrounding landscape.ElsevierConstrucciones Arquitectónicas ITEP130: Arquitectura, Patrimonio y Sostenibilidad: Acústica, Iluminación, Óptica y Energía2025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/183858https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104900reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, 104900. 787842https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24005285?via%3Dihubinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:idus________::e5d4fdb8e94f16b55ae883a2f23d39c22026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
title On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
spellingShingle On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
Santos da Rosa, Neemias
Archaeoacoustics
Impulse response
San rock art
South Africa
title_short On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
title_full On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
title_fullStr On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
title_full_unstemmed On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
title_sort On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art: An archaeoacoustic study at twenty-seven sites in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Santos da Rosa, Neemias
Álvarez Morales, Carmen Lidia
Moreno Iglesias, Diego
Laue, Ghilraen
Díaz Andreu, Margarita
author Santos da Rosa, Neemias
author_facet Santos da Rosa, Neemias
Álvarez Morales, Carmen Lidia
Moreno Iglesias, Diego
Laue, Ghilraen
Díaz Andreu, Margarita
author_role author
author2 Álvarez Morales, Carmen Lidia
Moreno Iglesias, Diego
Laue, Ghilraen
Díaz Andreu, Margarita
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Construcciones Arquitectónicas I
TEP130: Arquitectura, Patrimonio y Sostenibilidad: Acústica, Iluminación, Óptica y Energía
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Archaeoacoustics
Impulse response
San rock art
South Africa
topic Archaeoacoustics
Impulse response
San rock art
South Africa
description Over the past two decades, scholars have proposed the existence of a strong relationship between sound, acoustics, and the production of San rock art in certain places. However, this intriguing hypothesis had never been tested through the systematic application of a rigorous method to a substantial sample of sites. In this paper, we present an unprecedented archaeoacoustic study conducted at 27 shelters with San paintings located in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains (South Africa). The results obtained through the use of the impulse response (IR) method indicate that such a relationship should not be considered a pattern, but a circumstantial occurrence identified only in specific parts of the South African territory. Drawing on these data, we suggest that in our study area, the choice of sites to be painted may have been predominantly influenced by ontological beliefs concerning how the San perceived the shelters and the surrounding landscape.
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