Original study:
N. Rusch et al., The Doring River #bullroarers #RockPainting: Continuities in #sound and rainmaking, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33, 2020. 🔐💵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/...
#Archaeoacoustics and the #sound of ancient #RockArt …
Reconstructing #aerophones from #CederbergMountains in South #Africa’s Western Cape province (file under: #bullroarers):
theconversation.com/how-the-music-of-an-anci...
Which reminds me of some elongated perforated bone objects (some decorated with incised animal motives) from #GobekliTepe and other #PPN sites, we considered as potential #bullroarers too in the course of our discussion of "A Decorated Bone...
Toy, ritual tool, religious symbol, sound maker for hunting and herding?
Quite an interesting survey by @Evolving_Moloch on the ethnographic and historic function and use of #bullroarers:
traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/12/3/the-bullr...
