Graeme Lawson: Sound Tracks—The Archaeology of Music and Ancient Instruments

Podcast: Earth Ancients · Cliff Dunning

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

How far back does humanity’s relationship with music reach? What can ancient musical instruments reveal about the people who created them? On Earth Ancients, Cliff Dunning welcomes archaeologist, musician, and historian Graeme Lawson to explore Sound Tracks: An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past. Through sixty remarkable musical objects and the stories of their discovery, Lawson traces how music and sound helped shape human civilization. From a German harmonica recovered from a nineteenth-century American battlefield to a 1,300-year-old Peruvian flask designed to warble like a bird and a Stone Age flute preserved in a cave in...