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

[Anggarrgoon]

I assume that we know, incidentally, that the vase was made on a wheel 
and isn't corded ware?
Claire

Sophia Stevenson wrote:
> It's not the recording that's in French, it's the video discussing the 
> find that's in French... The recording played in the video is supposedly 
> in Latin, from a vase fired in Pompeii.
>  
> Having taken a few years of Latin, and after hearing that recording, I 
> find this quite hard to believe. But if that isn't enough, the method of 
> recording using a stylus wasn't used until 1877, when Edison recorded 
> "Mary Had a Little Lamb." And I'm pretty sure he didn't use pottery... 
> (I believe it was tinfoil, actually.) The chances that somebody's vocal 
> vibrations passed into the instrument used to decorate the pottery, and 
> that these vibrations survived through any type of glazing (as was the 
> custom of the period), are incredibly slim.
>  
> Still, it's a neat concept! Makes a good story too...
>  
> Sophia Stevenson
> University of Quebec At Montreal