Media
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Press
"Rock art, dance and ritual: what we learned from paintings in Zimbabwe"
29 April 2026. The Conversation
"Archéoacoustique. Le chant des cavernes. Le son reconstitué des rituels préhistoriques"
March 2026. Pour la Science
"Dance scenes in South African rock art: a closer look at ritual, music and movement"
26 February 2026. The Conversation
"Sounding the past – Pioneering research on archaeoacoustics and past musical instruments"
31 Dec 2025. ICREA highlights
"Archaeologist musician proves Neolithic conch chells could have made music"
6 Dec 2025. The World
"Hallan caracolas de 6.000 años usadas como instrumentos en Cataluña y ..."
5 Dec 2025. Infobae
"Ecos y rostros del pasado: nuevos hallazgos redefinen la vida cotidiana en el Neolítico"
5 Dec 2025. Almería Diaro
"Archaeologists Say These Conch Shells May Have Been Used as Early Musical Instruments 6,000 Years Ago"
4 Dec 2025. Smithsonian Magazine
"Els cargols de mar: trompes del neolític"
2 Dec 2025. UB Actualitat
"Las caracolas de mar: trompas del neolítico"
2 Dec 2025. UB Actualidad
"Seashells: horns from the Neolithic"
2 Dec 2025. UB. Current events
Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments
2 Dec 2025. The Guardian
"Els arqueòlegs fan música amb corns marins del neolític"
2 Dec 2025. Ara (CAT)
"Los arqueólogos hacen música con cuernos marinos del neolítico"
2 Dec 2025. Ara (ES)
"Archaeologists make music with Neolithic marine horns"
2 Dec 2025. Ara (EN)
"Arqueólogos hacen sonar trompetas de caracola de hace 6.000 años: en el Neolítico español pudieron ser los primeros instrumentos de comunicación masiva"
2 Dec 2025. Muy Interesante
"Shell Horns Used as Trumpets in Neolithic Mines of Catalonia Are the Oldest Communication Instruments in the Iberian Peninsula"
2 Dec 2025. La Brújula Verde EN
"Sounding the 6,000-year-old shell trumpets of Catalonia"
2 December 2025. phys.org
"We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age", Benjamin Taub
18 November 2025. New Scientist
Artsoundscapes IP has received the Menéndez Pidal National Research Award 2021 from King Felipe VI for her research career in the field of archaeology
5 May 2022. ciencia.gob.es
Artsoundscapes PI is selected as one of the scientist innovators on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
11 December 2022. FECYT webpage
Artsoundscapes PI is selected for the Menéndez Pidal National Award 2021.
24 November 2021. Daily News
Artsoundscapes talks at the El Extraordinario podcast “La historia del eco: de las cavernas a tu ducha”
20 May 2021. El Extraordinario
“El sonido del Arte Rupestre. Investigadores de Barcelona estudian la riqueza cultural y arqueológica de Moratalla”
10 october 2020, La Opinión de Murcia
Article on Artsoundscapes project in La Opinión de Murcia newspaper
“Moratalla celebra el Día Europeo del Arte Rupestre”
8 October 2020. El Diario de Murcia
Newspaper piece of news in which the Artsoundscapes project is mentioned.
“Fingerprints help identify age and sex of prehistoric painters in southern Spain. Researchers studied the Neolithic rock art in the Los Machos rockshelter”
9 september 2020. The Art Newspaper
Comments made PI Margarita Díaz-Andreu are mentioned in this article: Garry Shaw
Taking soundings in Teotihuacan
22 June 2020. The Economist
The Principal Investigator of the Artsoundscapes Project, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, is mentioned among the archaeologists who currently undertake research on ancient soundscapes.
Artsoundscapes was mentioned in the international weekly magazine The Economist
6 June, 2020. The Economist
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Arqueología del sonido en los abrigos de la Pietat: en busca de la influencia acústica en la localización del arte rupestre
23 June, 2019. Agència Catalana de Notícies
Four articles written by journalist Jordi Marsal from the Agència Catalana de Notícies about the fieldwork research that the members of the Artsoundscapes project carried out at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Abrics de l’Ermita in Ulldecona (southern Catalonia, Spain).
Más allá del sonido
9 December, 2018. Bulletin of the Catalan Association of Telecommunication Engineers
Analizando la acústica de los paisajes de arte rupestre prehistórico.
Arqueólogos del presente
13 December 2018. MG Magazine
An article published in the latest issue of MG Magazine, features several archaeologists whose research is ground-breaking and impacting both the scientific world and our everyday lives. Among them the work by Margarita Díaz-Andreu is mentioned..
Radio
TELEVISION
The project principal investigator Margarita Díaz-Andreu explained about the Artsoundscapes project in the ‘Terricoles programme’ of betevé channel, being interviewed by Lluís Reales..