List of conference, talks and seminar organized by the SONART project team.

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⎜June 2018⎜

Paper at the International Senckenberg Conference “Images, gestures, voices, lives: what can we learn from Palaeolithic art?”

T. Mattioli, M. Díaz-Andreu

Cave soundscapes: The tuning of darkness

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⎜June 2018⎜

Paper at the Royal Anthropological Institute “Art and Material Culture in Prehistoric Europe”,  M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli, L. Zubieta

Sound and cosmological efficacy in rock art landscapes

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⎜20 October 2017⎜

Lecture at the Interpretation Centre of the Ermita de la Pietat at Ulldecona – M. Díaz-Andreu

Archaeoacoustic and Levantine rock art – 8000 years of sonorous landscapes at the Ermita de la Pietat (Ulldecona)

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⎜19 October 2017⎜

Lecture at the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli

Archaeoacoustics and post-Palaeolithic art

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⎜18 October 2017⎜

Lecture at the University College of London, T. Mattioli – M. Díaz-Andreu

Intangible landscape: measuring the acoustics of rock art sites in the Central and Western Mediterranean


⎜31 August 2017⎜

Paper at the EAA Maastricht 2017, M. Díaz-Andreu – T. Mattioli 

Archaeoacoustics and the ‘Third Science Revolution’ in rock art studies

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⎜29 June 2017⎜

Paper at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Americaand the 8th Forum of Acoustics (Boston, USA) – Session “Archaeoacoustics of Caves and Rock Art Sites”. M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli

Rock art and prehistoric soundscapes: Some results from Italy, France and Spain


⎜11 May 2017⎜

Lecture at the Universidad Autónoma de México(UNAM). M. Díaz-Andreu

Arqueoacustica: una nueva mirada al arte rupestre


⎜2 May 2017⎜

Lecture at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (México). M. Díaz-Andreu

Arqueoacustica: una nueva mirada al arte rupestre


⎜3 November 2016⎜

Lecture at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid organized by Unión Cultural Arqueológica. M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli

Conferencia Arqueoacústica


⎜27 October 2016⎜

Paper at the conference “SIGNS OF PLACE: A VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF LANDSCAPE” organized by Julian Jansen van Rensburg at the Freie Universität Berlin

Conference program

T. Mattioli, M. Díaz-Andreu

Interpreting prehistoric art through the archaeology of sound: looking at the intangible context of prehistoric art in the Western Mediterranean


⎜14 September 2016⎜

Workshop on archaeoacoustics organized by SONART project, the University of Barcelona and the University of Helsinki.

Workshop program

About the speakers

T. Mattioli, M. Díaz-Andreu

Art & Acoustics: multiple perspectives


⎜2 September 2016⎜

Paper at the 8th World Archaeological Congress – Kyoto (Japan) – Session T14E “Interpreting prehistoric art: context, meaning, and function”

Conference program

T. Mattioli, M. Díaz-Andreu

Interpreting prehistoric art through the archaeology of sound: looking at the intangible context of prehistoric art in the Western Mediterranean


⎜1 September 2016⎜

Paper at the 8th World Archaeological Congress – Kyoto (Japan) – Session T10E “Doing Digital Archaeology on A Budget: Application and Development of Low-cost Digital Solutions for Archaeology”

Conference program

T. Mattioli, A. Farina, M. Díaz-Andreu, E. Armelloni

Archaeoacustics on a Budget: low-cost digital solutions to investigate the acoustics of rock art sites in the landscape

⎜29 August 2016⎜

Lecture at the University of Helsinki (Finland)

M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli

Prehistoric rock art, music and acoustics


⎜25 August 2016⎜

Paper at the 4th International Landscape Archaeology (LAC2016) hosted by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Session D1 “Crossing boundaries: Exploring the Limits of Landscape”

Conference program

M. Díaz-Andreu and T. Mattioli

Decorating acoustics. Soundscapes of post-Palaeolithic rock art in the Western Mediterranean

⎜19 May 2016⎜

Seminar at the University of Ferrara (Italy) organized by the University of Ferrara as part of the exhibition of Andrea Benetti ‘pre HISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA’.

Seminar Flyer

T. Mattioli Archeoacustica: l’archeologia del suono nei paesaggi di arte rupestre


⎜18 September 2015⎜

-ACRA III – The Alta Conference on Rock Art III: Perspectives on differences in Rock Art – Organized by The World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum and Tromsø University Museum, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Conference program

M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli The sound of images: transformations in the acoustics of post-palaeolithic rock art in the Western Mediterranean


⎜31 March 2015⎜

43rd Annual Conference – Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – University of Siena (Italy)

Conference program

M. Díaz-Andreu, T. Mattioli Archaeoacoustics of rock art: quantitative and qualitative approaches to the acoustics and soundscapes of rock art in the Western Mediterranean