Fwd: 17.552, Media: 6500-year-old voices recorded in pottery!

[Mia Kalish]

Actually, I think the article references the process of early recording,
where a stylus like device vibrated and made little holes or dents in the
recording medium. So it's the same principle. Now, whether it's "French" is
really a stretch. English, which I know a bit about, has changed a lot I the
few thousand years we have been watching it. "French" would have had to
change a great deal more in 6,500. 

Mia

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pottery!

Boy, this is a tough one to believe, although who knows...it's a 
captivating possibility!

At 11:29 AM 2/20/2006, you wrote:
>I'm not sure how much I believe this, but it is certainly interesting. 
>(The pottery is from South America.)
>
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>>From: Mike Matloff < michelhoo at yahoo.com >
>>Subject: 6500-year-old voices recorded in pottery!
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>>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:35:55
>>From: Mike Matloff < michelhoo at yahoo.com >
>>Subject: 6500-year-old voices recorded in pottery!
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>>Description from The Raw Feed (http://www.therawfeed.com):
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>>'Belgian researchers have been able to use computer scans of the grooves
in
>>6,500-year-old pottery to extract sounds -- including talking and laughter
>>-- made by the vibrations of the tools used to make the pottery.'
>>
>>Here's the link to the video:
>>http://www.zalea.org/article.php3?id_article=496
>>
>>It's only available in French right now, but even if you don't speak
French
>>I think you can get the general gist and hear the 'playback'!
>>
>>Mike
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