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

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

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Date: 19-Feb-2006
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! 
 


Description from The Raw Feed (http://www.therawfeed.com):

'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 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics




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