Scientific Conferences
The debate and the exchange of ideas are crucial for the advancement of science. Here you can learn more about our participation in sessions, seminars and conferences
Sessions, seminars and conferences organised by us
«New approaches to archaeoacoustic studies»
3-6 September 2025
Session organised by Joshua Kumbani, Zorana Dordevic and Margarita Díaz-Andreu. 31st EAA Annual Meeting
31st European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Virtual
«Ressonàncies del Passat: La recerca arqueomusicològica a Catalunya»
27 February 2025
Organized by Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Miquel López Garcia and Zorana Dordevic.
ERC Artsoundscapes project conference.
«XVII Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology and the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts»
Valladolid, 25-27 September 2024
Artsoundscapes has been one of the collaborators of the XVII Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts
«Session: Exploring sounds and music in archaeological landscapes»
26-31 August 2024
Session organised by Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Zorana Đorđević, Kamil Kopij and Joshua Kumbani
30th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, held in Rome (Italy).
«Session: Acústica de recintos históricos»
18-20 October 2023
Session organised by Alicia Giménez, Lidia Álvarez-Morales, and Samuel Quintana
54º Congreso Español de Acústica -TECNIACÚSTICA 2023 y XIII Encuentro Ibérico de Acústica, held in Cuenca (Spain).
“Session: Music archaeology in Africa”
13-19 July 2023
Session organized by Raquel Jiménez-Pasalodos; Joshua Kumbani; Neemias Santos da Rosa.
47th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference. University of Ghana, Legon. 13-19 July 2023
“Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics”
20-21 October 2022
Organized by Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Neemias Santos da Rosa.
ERC Artsoundscapes project conference. Registration on pr.artsoundscapes@ub.edu
“Approaching the sounds of the past. Music, acoustics and identity”
3-8 July 2022
Organized by Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Luboš Chroustovský and Neemias Santos da Rosa Rosa at the WAC-9 conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 3-8 July 2022.
“Archaeology of Soundscapes and Soundscapes for Archaeology”
24-30 August 2020
Organized by Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Rupert Till.
26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, session #124.
“Arqueología de los Espacios Sonoros” [Archaeology of Soundscapes]
18 November 2020. Spain.
Virtual conference organized within the Artsoundscapes Project by the National Museum of Archaeology in Madrid and the University of Barcelona.
“From landscape archaeology to soundscape archaeology: Themes, approaches and perspectives”
4-7 September 2019. Bern, Switzerland
Organized by Angela Bellia and Tommaso Mattioli.
25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, session #184.
Papers
31 Aug-4 Sept 2026
“Coordinating Prehistoric Mining Through Sound: Shell Trumpets From The Neolithic Mines of Gavà (Catalonia, Spain)”
Paper at the session «Digging Deeper: Uncovering the People Behind Prehistoric Flint and Other Georesource Mining», organised by Jean-Philippe Collin, Jon Barczkowski, Joep Orbons and Dagmara Werra at the UISPP conference, Poznán. 3 Sept
Speakers*/authors: Miquel López Garcia* and Margarita Díaz-Andreu*
6-10 July 2026
«The Prehistory of Music»
Lecture in the «Introduction to Archaeoacoustics» course at the IL3, University of Barcelona, 6 July 2026
Lecturer: Miquel López García
6-10 July 2026
“Acoustics, Music and dance in rock art”
Lecture discussing some of the results of the Artsoundscapes project in the «Introduction to Archaeoacoustics» course at the IL3, University of Barcelona. 8 July
Lecturer: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
6-10 July 2026
«Practical: How does the Historical Building of the UB sound?»
Practical session showing the methodology developed in the Artsoundscapes project in the «Introduction to Archaeoacoustics» course at the IL3, University of Barcelona, 10 July 2026
Lecturers: Lidia Alvarez-Morales* and Miquel López García*
28-30 May 2026
“Trompas de Charonia lampas (Linnaeus 1758). Cadenas operativas de un nuevo elemento diagnóstico del Neolítico Medio catalán”
Paper at the VIII Reunión de Arqueomalacología en la Península Ibérica, Universidad de La Rioja, 28 May 2026.
Speakers*/authors: Miquel López García, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Jordi Nadal*
29-30 April 2026
«Arqueoacústica: el paper del so en espais i paisatges del passat»
Paper in Session «Patrimoni acústic i sonor. Escoltar, enregistrar i recrear el so dels espais patrimonials» (organised by Marc Arnela). VI Acusticat. VI Congrés d’Acústica a Catalunya, Barcelona, 30 April 2026.
Speakers*/authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu* and Miquel López García
11 March 2026
«Artsoundscapes: listening to the sounds of prehistory»
Seminar at the Instytut Archeologii UJ, the Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
3-6 September 2025
«Cosmology, sound and forager societies. The archaeoacoustic study of site 26LN211, White River Narrows (USA) as a case study»
Paper in Session #50 “New Approaches to archaeoacoustic studies” (organised by Joshua Kumbani, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Zorana Dordevic). 31st EAA Annual meeting, Belgrade, 3-6 Sept.
Speakers*/authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu*, Lidia Alvarez-Morales, Daniel Benítez Aragón and Diego Moreno Iglesias
3-6 September 2025
«Neolithic shell trumpets in Catalonia: an archaeoacoustical approach»
Paper in Session #50 “New Approaches to archaeoacoustic studies” (organised by Joshua Kumbani, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Zorana Dordevic). 31st EAA Annual meeting, Belgrade, 3-6 Sept
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Miquel López Garcia
27 February 2025
«Los sonidos del pasado: posibilidades y límites de la Arqueoacústica en el contexto del arte levantino en Cataluña»
Paper at the One-day Conference “Ressonàncies del passat: la recerca arqueomusicològica a Catalunya”. Museu de la Música (Barcelona).
Speakers*/authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu*, Lidia Alvarez-Morales* and Neemias Santos da Rosa
27 February 2025
«Els corns marins prehistòrics a Catalunya: estudi i experimentació acústica»
Paper at the One-day Conference “Ressonàncies del passat: la recerca arqueomusicològica a Catalunya”. Museu de la Música (Barcelona).
Speakers*/authors: Miquel López Garcia*, Margarita Díaz-Andreu*
24 January 2025
«Artsoundscapes: Connectant el so i l’art Rupestre»
Paper at the «II Jornades d’Organologia» 23-25 de gener de 2025. Museu de la Música (Barcelona).
Speakers*/authors: Lidia Alvarez-Morales*, Miquel López Garcia*, Margarita Díaz-Andreu*
11 December 2024
«El proyecto de la ERC ARTSOUNDSCAPES: el sonido y la música entre los cazadores-recolectores del Holoceno y en las primeras sociedades hortícolas y ganaderas»
Conference: II Jornada de Recerca de l’Institut d’Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IAUB). Barcelona (with Lidia Alvarez-Morales, Miguel López García and Joshua Kumbani)
Speakers*/authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu*, Lidia Álvarez-Morales, Miquel López García* & Joshua Kumbani.
26 October 2024
«Arqueoacústica en la provincia de Cádiz: explorando el arte rupestre con un enfoque multisensorial»
Conference: XIII Encuentro de Arqueología del Suroeste Peninsular; 25, 26 y 27 de octubre de 2024; Cádiz – Benalup Casas Viejas, Spain
Authors: Lidia Álvarez-Morales, Neemias Santos da Rosa, María Lazarich, & Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Speakers*/authors: Lidia Álvarez-Morales* & Margarita Díaz-Andreu*
27 September 2024
«When music meets granite: musical instruments depictions in the rock art of Zimbabwe»
Conference: XVII Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts. Valladolid, 25-27 September.
Speakers*/authors: Joshua Kumbani* & Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
More Information on programme here and abstract books here
26 September 2024
«Archaeological evidence of sound and music-related artifacts from southern Africa»
Conference: XVII Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music Archaeology, jointly organized with the ICTMD Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts. Valladolid, 25-27 September.
Author: Joshua Kumbani.
More Information on programme here and abstract books here
1 September 2024
POSTER «Unveiling the drumbeat: exploring drum motifs in South Africa and Zimbabwe»
Conference: Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.
Session theme: The Material Record: Current Trends and Future Directions
Speakers*/authors: Joshua Kumbani* & Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
More Information on programme and abstract books here.
1 September 2024
«Beyond the move: a systematic analysis of dance scenes in the rock art of Zimbabwe and South Africa»
Conference: Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.
Session: Exploring sounds and music in archaeological landscapes
Authors: Joshua Kumbani & Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
More Information on programme and abstract books here
8 December 2023
«El paisaje sonoro de la tradición Gran Mural: un análisis de SIG del arte rupestre en el cañón de Santa Teresa. Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur»
Conference: XXIII Encuentro binacional Balances y Perspectivas. Virtual meeting.
Authors/*speakers: Natalia Gónzález Vázquez*, Gabriel García Atiénzar, M. Luz Gutiérrez, Neemias Santos da Rosa, César Villalobos & Margarita Díaz-Andreu*.
18-20 October 2023
«Acústica de recintos prehistóricos: estudio arqueoacústico de Palomas I»
Conference: 54º Congreso Español de Acústica y XIII Encuentro Ibérico de Acústica -TECNIACÚSTICA 2023, Cuenca, Spain
Speakers*/authors: Alvarez-Morales, L.*, Santos da Rosa, N., Benítez-Aragón, D., Lazarich, M., & Díaz-Andreu, M.
5-7 September 2023
«Psychoacoustics of Rock Art Sites: the Case Study of the Shelters Diosa I and Horadada (Cádiz, Spain)»
Conference: International Conference – Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA 2023). Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Speakers*/authors: López-Mochales, S.*, Alvarez-Morales, L., Santos da Rosa, N., Lazarich, M., Díaz-Andreu, M., Escera, C.
4 September 2023
«Recovering the intangible acoustic heritage of rock art sites: El Tajo de las Figuras as a case study»
Paper given at the International Conference – Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA 2023). Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.September 5-7, 2023, Session: “Digital Approaches to Hearing the Past”.
Speakers*/authors: Lidia Álvarez-Morales*, Neemias Santos da Rosa, Daniel Benítez-Aragón, Maria Lazarich, Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
1-3 September 2023
«Psychoacoustic Study of the Rock Art Sites of Cuevas de la Araña (Bicorp, Spain)»
Conference: 2nd Conference on Sound Perception (CSP2023). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Speakers*/authors: Samantha López-Mochales*, Tapio Lokki, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Carles Escera.
1 September 2023
«Artsoundscapes: exploring sound perception and emotion in prehistoric rock art landscapes»
Conference: European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting (EAA2023). University of Belfast, U.K.
Speakers*/authors: Díaz-Andreu, M.*, Santos da Rosa, N.; Alvarez-Morales, L.; López-Mochales, S.; Aparicio-Terrés, R.; Escera, C.
18 July 2023
«Listening to ancient images: the acoustics of San rock art sites».
Conference: 47th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference. University of Ghana, Legon. 13-19 July 2023.
Speakers*/authors: Santos da Rosa, N.; Alvarez-Morales, L; Moreno Iglesias, D. & Díaz-Andreu, M.*
18 July 2023
«Introduction to the session.»
Conference: 47th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference. University of Ghana, Legon. 13-19 July 2023.
Speakers*/authors: Jiménez Pasalodos, R.*; Kumbani, J.*
18 July 2023
«A snapshot of music and sound-related archaeological artefacts from Southern Africa.»
Conference: 47th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference. University of Ghana, Legon. 13-19 July 2023.
Authors: Kumbani, J.
19-21 July 2023
«Acoustic Perception and Emotion Evocation by Rock Art Soundscapes of Altai (Russia).»
Conference: SEPNECA (XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC). Santiago de Compostela.
Speakers*/authors: López-Mochales, S.*; Aparicio-Terrés, R.; Díaz-Andreu, M.; Escera, C.
19-21 July 2023
«Exploring the link between neural entrainment and altered states of consciousness through electronic music»
Conference: SEPNECA (XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC). Santiago de Compostela.
Speakers*/authors: Aparicio-Terrés, R*; López-Mochales, S.; Díaz-Andreu, M.; Escera, C.
26-27 June 2023
«Exploring the link between entrainment and altered states of consciousness by modulating the rhythmicity of long periods of drumming stimulation»
Conference: NICIS (Neurosciences in intensive Care International Symposium). Paris, 26-27 June. Institut Pasteur. Paris.
Speakers*/authors: Aparicio-Terrés, R*; López-Mochales, S.; Díaz-Andreu, M.; Escera, C.
2 – 4 June 2023
«Sounding the Past: Levantine art and the acoustics of rock art sites»
Poster presented at the “Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2023 «Peopling the Past: Reflecting on Prehistoric Europe», organized by the Prehistoric Society to honour the achievements of Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, in the field of European Prehistory.
Speakers*/authors: Díaz-Andreu, M.*; Alvarez Morales, L; Benítez, D.; Santos da Rosa, S.
15-17 December 2022
“An archaeology of the invisible? Exploring the acoustics of rock art landscapes through a multidisciplinary approach”
Speakers*/authors: Neemias Santos da Rosa* and Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Paper at the session: «Rethinking Rock Art: biographies of research, new theoretical explorations and multidisciplinary approaches» organized by Joana Valdez-Tullett, Sofia Figueiredo-Persson & Andreia Silva. 43th Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2022. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
9-10 November 2022
“Assessing the relationship between neural entrainment and altered states of consciousness induced by electronic music”
Conference: International Multi-Brain Barcelona Congress – Healthy, Pathological and Artificial Brain. Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Barcelona.
Speakers*/authors: Aparicio-Terrés, R*; López-Mochales, S.; Díaz-Andreu, M.; Escera, C
4 November 2022
“Hearing the Past. The archaeoacoustics of rock art landscapes”
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Felix Neubergh lecture 2022. Gothenburg, Sweden.
28-30 October 2022
«Danzando sobre las rocas: la identificación de una práctica cultural inmaterial en la zona meridional del Arte Levantino»
Paper at the «II Jornades Internacionals d’Art Prehistòric de l’Arc Mediterrani de la Peninsula Ibèrica». Montblanc, 28-30 October 2022.
Speakers*/authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu*, Neemias Santos da Rosa* and Laura Fernández Macías.
24-28 October 2022
“Perceptual and emotional responses to rock art soundscapes in Altai (Russia)”
Paper at the “Reconstruction/restoration of sound in historic buildings, structures, and cultural landscapes” session, the Virtual acoustics group of sessions, 24th International Conference on Acoustics (ICA 2022). Gyeongiu, South Korea
Speakers*/authors: Samantha López*, Carles Escera, Raquel Aparicio, Margarita Díaz-Andreu
21 October 2022, 9.40h
«Music and storytelling in rock art sites? The archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh area»
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Lidia Alvarez Morales. Other authors: Andrzej Rozwadowski; Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos; Neemias Santos da Rosa; Daniel Benítez-Aragón
Paper at the «Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics». Artsoundscapes conference, 20-21 October 2022
20 October 2022, 15.40h
«The materiality of the immaterial: A theoretical approach to the study of archaeological musical instruments»
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos
Paper at the «Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics». Artsoundscapes conference, 20-21 October 2022
20 October 2022, 11.50h
«Methods for perceptual and emotional evaluation of soundscapes in immersive auditory environments»
Speaker: Samantha López. Other authors: José Valenzuela; Raquel Aparicio-Terrés; Carles Escera
Paper at the «Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics». Artsoundscapes conference, 20-21 October 2022
20 October 2022, 10.50h
«A first approach to the study of neural mechanisms that make acoustics a phenomenon to be considered in ancient human experience»
Speaker: Raquel Aparicio-Terrés. Other authors: Samantha López; Carles Escera.
Paper at the «Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics». Artsoundscapes conference, 20-21 October 2022
20 October 2022, 9.30h
«Welcome to the Past Sounds Conference: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics»
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Paper at the «Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics». Artsoundscapes conference, 20-21 October 2022
17 Septemper 2022
«The sonorous dimension of San rock art: an archaeoacoustic approach to Game Pass shelter»
Speaker: Neemias Santos da Rosa. Other authors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Lidia Alvarez Morales; Diego Moreno; Ghilraen Laue
Paper at the «Game Pass Symposium 14-17 September 2022. Kwazulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
16 September 2022
«Cathedral acoustics through experimental measurements and simulation techniques»
Speaker: Lidia Alvarez-Morales
Seminar – Akusttik Blog, University of Aachen (Germany)
10 August 2022
«Arqueoacústica: una inmersión en el mundo de los sonidos de la prehistoria»
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Keynote at the Aula Cabrera Course, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, 8-12 August 2022. Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander
5 July 2022
«How relevant is the acoustics of an aggregation site? Cuevas de la Araña as a case study»
Speaker: Neemias Santos da Rosa. Other authors: Lidia Alvarez Morales: Laura Fernández Macías: Ximo Martorell Briz; Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Session: F15-14. Approaching the sounds of the past. Music, acoustics and identity. Organised by Luboš Chroustovský, Neemias Santos da Rosa and Margarita Díaz-Andreu. World Archaeological Congress, Prague
5 July 2022
«Searching for acoustics in Altai’s rock art landscapes»
Speaker: Margarita Diaz-Andreu. Other authors: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, Andrzej Rozwadowski, Daniel Benítez, Lidia Alvarez Morales, Elena Miklashevich and Neemias Santos da Rosa
Session: F15-14. Approaching the sounds of the past. Music, acoustics and identity. Organised by Luboš Chroustovský, Neemias Santos da Rosa and Margarita Díaz-Andreu. World Archaeological Congress, Prague
25 May 2022
«Arte rupestre y Arqueoacústica»
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Seminar series: Conversatorio Virtual Presente y Presencia del Arte Rupestre. Nuevas Aproximaciones ¿En los Límites de la Ciencia? Organised by Francisco Mendiola (Centro INAH Puebla).
21-22 May 2022. CCRMA, Stanford University and online
«Emotional Enhancement by Renaissance Music and the Acoustics of Christian Temples in the United Kingdom»
Speaker: Samantha López-Mochales
Conference: Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime.
8 April 2022
«Testing the relationship between altered states of consciousness and neural entrainment to the beat of trance music»
Speaker: Raquel Aparicio
Invited speaker at the laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
6 April 2022
«Exploring sound in rock art landscapes: the ERC Artsoundscapes Project»
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu & Neemias Santos da Rosa.
Conference: “Nouvelles approaches: art rupestre & acoustique» Research Seminar organised by Léa Jobard and Camille Bourdier (equipe SMP3C et Pole Afrique), Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
1 February 2022. Madrid, 18h
«Paisajes vivos y ontologías sonoras: el proyecto europeo Artsoundscapes (ERC ref. 787842) ante el reto del contexto intangible del arte rupestre»
Organized by: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN), Actividad Arqueológica IV Seminar Series
29 November 2021. Edinburgh (UK)
«Sounding rock art landscapes: some results of the Artsoundscapes project»
Organized by: SCRAP project, in the SCRAP webminar II series
25 November 2021
«Archaeoacoustics: a new way of analysing rock art landscapes»
Organized by: Acoustical Society of Nigeria
Speakers: Neemias Santos da Rosa, Lidia Alvarez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Acoustics Workshop on Acoustics in the Humanities and Sciences (virtual)
8-11 September 2021. Kiel (Germany)
«Acoustics and the chaîne opératoire of rock art production: Levantine rock art as a case study»
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Neemias Santos da Rosa and Samantha López.
EAA SESSION: “Rock Art Technology: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches”.Organized by: Neemias Santos da Rosa and Lydia Zotkina – 27th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting.
8-11 September 2021. Kiel (Germany)
“Rock Art Technology: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches“
Organized by: Neemias Santos da Rosa and Lydia Zotkina.
27th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting.
8-10 September 2021. Cádiz (Spain)
«Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces»
Poster presentation (Presenter: Samantha López-Mochales)
Conference: XII Conference of the Spanish Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SEPNECA).
8-11 September 2021. Kiel (Germany)
“Sound, ritual and archaeological ontologies: exploring the symbolic dimensions of rock art production and use in prehistory“
Speakers: Neemias Santos da Rosa, Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
EAA SESSION: “Rock Art Technology: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches”.Organized by: Neemias Santos da Rosa and Lydia Zotkina – 27th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting.
31 August 2021. Albarracín (Spain)
“The acoustics of sacred places: from cathedrals to rock art sites”
Speaker: Lidia Alvarez Moralesu
Sonotomia Residency 2.0.
Organized by SONOTOMIA – Sound Anatomy of Unique Places
22 July 2021. UIMP (Santander)
“La dimensión sonora. Investigaciones en Arqueoacústica del arte prehistórico” [“The sound dimension. Research in the archaeoacoustics of prehistoric art.”]
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Course. 10th Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola School of Art and Heritage [X Escuela de Arte y Patrimonio Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola] in the course “Symbols of another time. Art, ritual and communication during the Palaeolithic” [Símbolos de otro tiempo. Arte, ritual y comunicación en el Paleolítico], organized by Pilar Fatás Monforte and Pablo Arias Cabal.
20 July 2021. Newcastle University (UK)
«Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces»
Speaker: Samantha López-Mochales
Symposium on Scholarly Reconstruction
Organized by Carmela Barbaro and Gianluca Foschi
“Arqueoacústica y arte levantino: nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de un arte silenciado” [Archaeoacoustics and Levantine rock art: new perspectives for the study of a silenced art]
Lecture Series: Prehistoric Art, from the Rock to the Museum.
31 May 2021. Toulouse (France)
“L’archéologie de genre dans la préhistoire méditerranéenne: l’état actuel de la discussion sur les femmes dans l’art rupestre Levantin (Espagne)”
Speakers: Neemias Santos da Rosa, Laura Fernández and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Session: «Where are women? Gender archeology in Prehistory and Protohistory: France on the sidelines of gender studies? (Session E1)», organised by Anne Augereau (Inrap, UMR PréTech); Sophie Archambault de Beaune (University of Lyon 3, UMR ArScAn); and Caroline Trémeaud (Cellule archéologique des Ardennes, UMR Trajectoires). 29e Congrès Préhistorique de la France.
28 May 2021. Virtual
Participation in Early career roundtable with “Entraining the brain” SCAN speakers Jessica Grahn, Molly Henry, and Jonathan Simon. Organizers: Lori L. Holt, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Bharath Chandrasekaran, Maria Chait, Frederic Dick
Participant: Raquel Aparicio
Symposium for Cognitive Auditory Neuroscience (SCAN).
4 May 2021. National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid (Spain).
«La investigación reciente en arqueología musical» [Recent research in musical archaeology]
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos
Lecture Series: News of Archaeological Research in Spain.
20 April 2021. Museu de Prehistòria de Valencia, Spain.
“Origen de la música. Los primeros instrumentos sonoros”.
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos.
World Creativity and Innovation Day.
3 December 2020. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas (Brasil)
“Além da imagem: a arte rupestre como produto de relações sociais, estruturas simbólicas e processos tecnológicos”
Speaker: Neemias Santos da Rosa.
I Encontro Interno de História da Arte da Unicamp.
18 Nov 2020. National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid (Spain)
«Espacios sonoros en la Prehistoria»
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Arqueología de los Espacios Sonoros [Archaeology of Soundscapes], National Museum of Archaeology.
18 Nov 2020. National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid (Spain)
«Representaciones de danzas en el Arte Levantino»
Speaker: Neemias Santos da Rosa.
Arqueología de los Espacios Sonoros [Archaeology of Soundscapes]
18 Nov 2020. National Museum of Archaeology, Madrid (Spain)
«Las trompas cerámicas numantinas y su estudio a través de la arqueometría y la arqueología experimental»
Speaker: Raquel Jimenez Pasalodos, Juan Jésus Padilla, Manuel Garcia Heras and Estefanía García Barrajón.
Arqueología de los Espacios Sonoros [Archaeology of Soundscapes].
28 Aug 2020
«Celtiberian perforated bones in the Numantine Museum of Soria (Spain).»
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos.
26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 24-30 August 2020.
27 Aug 2020
«Ritual music and the configuration of liminal spaces: Examples from archaeology and ethnography.»
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 24-30 August 2020.
28 Feb 2020. University of Gent (Belgium)
«Archaeoacoustics and alternative perspectives on religion and ritual in archaeology»
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Alumni Gentse Archeologen.
28 Feb 2020. University of Gent (Belgium)
«Digitalizing the Sounds of the Past»
Speaker: Tommaso Mattioli.
Alumni Gentse Archeologen.
28 Jan 2020. University of Barcelona (Faculty of Psychology), Barcelona (Spain)
«Universals in Music? Perspectives from Ethnomusicology and Music Archaeology»
Speaker: Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos.
8th Barcelona Lecture Series in Brain, Cognition and Behavior.
23 Nov 2019. University of London, London (United Kingdom)
«Preliminary results of the acoustic analysis of the Great Mural Rock Art in the Cañon de Santa Teresa, Baja California Sur (Mexico)»
Speaker: Leslie F. Zubieta, Mª de la Luz Gutiérrez Martínez, Tommaso Mattioli, Mathieu Picas, César Villalobos, Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Music Archaeology of Latin America, 22-23 November 2019.
22 Nov 2019. University of London, London (United Kingdom)
«Dreaming music in water: representing Yokuts songs in the early 20th century».
Speakers: Ana Maria Alarcón-Jiménez, Raquel Jiménez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Music Archaeology of Latin America, 22-23 November 2019.
8 Nov 2019. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
«Escuchar con los ojos: la aplicación del GIS al estudio del campo visual y sonoro en los paisajes de arte rupestre de la montaña alicantina»
Speakers: Tommaso Mattioli, Gabriel García Atiénzar, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Virginia Barciela González.
VI Congreso Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos «El arte en las sociedades prehistóricas» [6th International Congress of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers “The Art of Prehistoric Societies”], 6-9 November 2019
8 Nov 2019. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
«Los paralelos etnográficos sobre chamanismo y acústica entre los yokuts: una reflexión histórica sobre la (ausencia de) interacción entre la antropología y el estudio del arte rupestre».
Speakers: Ana María Alarcón Jiménez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
VI Congreso Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos «El arte en las sociedades prehistóricas» [6th International Congress of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers “The Art of Prehistoric Societies”], 6-9 November 2019.
8 Nov 2019. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
«Arqueología; psicoacústica y arte rupestre: escuchando el pasado con ayuda del método científico»
Speakers: José Valenzuela, Carles Escera and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
VI Congreso Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos «El arte en las sociedades prehistóricas» [6th International Congress of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers “The Art of Prehistoric Societies”], 6-9 November 2019
7 Nov 2019. Universidad de Alicante, Alicante (Spain)
«Arte rupestre postpaleolítico al sur de los Alpes: el registro artístico de la península italiana»
Speakers: Tommaso Mattioli.
Keynote lecture. VI Congreso Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos «El arte en las sociedades prehistóricas» [6th International Congress of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers “The Art of Prehistoric Societies”], 6-9 November 2019.
26 Sep 2019. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
«Los paisajes sonoros de Baja California Sur: resultados preliminares del análisis acústico del arte rupestre del Gran Mural en el Cañón de Santa Teresa»
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Mª Luz Gutiérrez Martínez, Tommaso Mattioli, Laura Coltofean, Mathieu Picas, César Villalobos and Leslie Zubieta.
Segundo Encuentro de Arqueomusicología de las Américas – ‘Artes, paisajes y objetos sonoros del pasado’ [Second archaeomusicological meeting of the Americas – ‘Sonourous art, landscapes and objects of the past’], 25-27 September 2019.
26 Sep 2019. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
«Arte rupestre, música y esquizofonía: representaciones inter-disciplinares de las prácticas sonoras de los Yokuts (Valle de San Joaquín, California, EEUU).»
Speakers: Ana María Alarcón Jiménez, Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, Tommaso Mattioli and Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Segundo Encuentro de Arqueomusicología de las Américas – ‘Artes, paisajes y objetos sonoros del pasado’ [Second archaeomusicological meeting of the Americas – ‘Sonourous art, landscapes and objects of the past’], 25-27 September 2019
9 Sep 2019. Aachen (Germany)
«Acoustic effects at prehistoric landscapes: an archaeoacoustic analysis of rock art sites from Western Mediterranean»
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Angelo Farina, Enrico Armelloni, Laura Coltofean, Mathieu Picas and Tommaso Mattioli.
23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), 9-13 September 2019
9 Sep 2019. Aachen (Germany)
«Digitalizing the sounds of the past: the soundscapes of World Heritage rock art landscapes from Spain and Mexico»
Speakers: Angelo Farina, Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Enrico Armelloni, Mathieu Picas, Leslie Zubieta and Tommaso Mattioli.
23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), 9-13 September 2019.
5 Sep 2019. Bern (Switzerland)
«Echoes from the present, echoes from the past: Experiencing ancient soundscapes through ethnography and ethnohistory.»
Speakers: Doerte Weig, Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos and Tommaso Mattioli.
25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 4-7 September 2019.
5 Sep 2019. Bern (Switzerland)
«Californian «Rock Music»: Ancient soundscapes from a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective.»
Speakers: Mathieu Picas, Ana María Alarcón Jiménez and Laura Coltofean.
25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 4-7 September 2019.
7 Jun 2019. Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Torino (Italy)
«L’arte rupestre schematica post-paleolitica del promontorio del Gargano (Puglia, Italia)»
Speakers: Tommaso Mattioli and Armando Gravina.
Invited talk. VII IAPP – Incontro Annuale di Preistoria e Protostoria – ‘Preistoria e protostoria in ambiente montano: scoperte e ricerca territoriale, tutela e valorizzazione’,
10-14 Apr 2019. Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
“The soundscapes of Baja California: preliminary results of the Arroyo de San Pablo rock art canyon”
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, María de la Luz Gutiérrez Martínez, Tommaso Mattioli, César Villalobos and Leslie Zubieta.
84th SAA Annual Meeting, 10-14 April 2019.
16 Jan 2019. Newton Park Campus (Commons 226), Bath Spa University (UK).
“Sounds and The Sacred in Rock Art Soundscapes”
Speaker: Margarita Díaz-Andreu.
Her talk centred on the acoustics of landscapes, especially of those marked by past communities with prehistoric rock art as a way of providing them with a special meaning.
22 Nov 2018. Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya (Spain)
“Art rupestre i paisatges sonors” (“Rock art and soundscapes”).
Speaker: Tommaso Mattioli.
Workshop ‘Rock art and neolithization’.
17 Nov 2018. National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon (Portugal)
“The acoustics of rock art landscapes: new perspectives”
Speakers: Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Tommaso Mattioli.
Conference “Arqueologia, Arqueoacústica e Neurociência: Que relação?” (Archaeology, Archaeoacoustics and Neuroscience – What is the connection?)
