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Revived echoes augment research results

By Chelsea Wald

12 October 2011

Archaeologists combine state-of-the-art opera with research into acoustics to recreate an ancient sound stage

A “MEDIA opera” that features state-of-the-art audio-visual technologies, Pitoti: Echoes of the Echoes hovers somewhere between being a research report on rock art and an artwork in itself.

The research focuses on findings that use acoustics to explain the positioning of 4000-year-old rock paintings around their valley home of Valcamonica in northern Italy.

A musical performance, then, is an apt choice for augmenting more traditional forms of publishing. Film-maker and archaeologist , co-director of the multidisciplinary Prehistoric Picture Project (PPP) that is behind the…

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