Posted on 05/14/2016 12:23:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An archaeologist studying musical horns from iron-age Ireland has found musical traditions, thought to be long dead, are alive and well in south India.
The realisation that modern Indian horns are almost identical to many iron-age European artefacts reveals a rich cultural link between the two regions 2,000 years ago, said PhD student Billy O Foghlu, from The Australian National University (ANU).
"Archaeology is usually silent. I was astonished to find what I thought to be dead soundscapes alive and living in Kerala today," said the ANU College of Asia-Pacific student...
The findings help show that Europe and India had a lively cultural exchange with musicians from the different cultures sharing independently developed technology and musical styles.
One example of this musical mixing is depicted in a carving of a celebration in Sanchi dating from c300 BC that shows a group of musicians taking part, playing two European carnyces, a horn with an animal's head.
The musical style of Kerala explains some of the mysteries surrounding the horns that have been unearthed in European iron-age excavations and suggest a very different musical soundscape to current western music said Mr O Foghlu.
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Thanks! I’m adding cornu to the keywords... probably the first topic, but just wait a couple of years... also I added shofar when I posted the topic.
Chess also came from India, so it’s not unexpected that they invented the, uh, straight flush.
Davy Graham broke open interest in raga in fingerstyle guitar with 1962’s “She moves through the Fair”, better known to many as “White Summer” (Jimmy Page recorded it while still in the Yardbirds, and re-recorded it during the Zep years; “Black Mountain Side” is a ripoff of an old folk tune “Black Waterside”). SMTTF is considered a traditional (public domain) song, but unlike a lot of stuff in that category, its authors are known.
DG’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvpTVn_Ltzc
Medley: She Moved Thru’ the Bizarre/Blue Raga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XkWbKBs80
Loreena McKennitt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTa8NA7Ei84
and live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUb3-VZmJus
Van Morrison and the Chieftains teamed up for a pretty haunting version of that song as well....
Ooops, it wasn’t big in the preview. I’d like to go see it before the muslims blow it up.
Actually, the first civilization with underground plumbing was the Indus Valley Civilization some 8500 years ago.
It’s been recorded a lot, I used to try to track down the renditions on CDs, now every once in a while I do a YT search. :’)
If they blow it up any more, it won’t even fit on this monitor. ;’)
More like 3500 years ago for the Indus Valley plumbing.
Wasn’t Indus Valley around 5800BC?
Their neolithic beginnings were in the 8th m BC. Their city-building didn’t get going until the 4th m BC, and they didn’t immediately build plumbing — they started out in small villages, and like a lot of riverine civs, went with massive agriculture, and then needed recordkeeping to track who farmed what, and how much irrigation water was needed; urban living was due to more and more descendants building out from the village cores. That kind of crowding led to the usual learning from mistakes, and sewage management.
The first of what we’d consider somewhat modern plumbing isn’t (as is usually claimed) Knossos on Crete, but the city of Rome. They used similar methods (a buried channel with running water to flush it out) of sewage handling as the Harappans had. Other civilizations handled it differently, the most common method may have been, “go” in a container, and every day or some other interval, take it to the designated area a little downstream from the water supply.
I just love a well-constructed mixed metaphor!
It takes some trial and error — I work my way up from a metawon.
The Desert Mummies of China The Mysterious Caucasian Taklamakan Mummies in Ancient China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB0q9VdL5nQ
China’s Dessert Mummies Documentary on the Taklamakan Mummies
[mmm, lady fingers!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl6siGw18kQ
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