This is going to be quick as there’s still a lot of conference to go. The 7:30 am press breakfast was scrumptious. There was an arctic presentation. Unfortunately, one of the speakers yelled into his microphone. One of those enthusiastic individuals who speaks loudly in the first place so he really didn’t need to have his voice augmented but then he got excited and that was just too much.

Sadly I did not arrive in time to hear all of the speakers at archaeoacoustics presentation organized by David Lubman. The two poeple I did hear, Steven J. Waller and Lubman were quire fascinating. They both study the acoustics one experiences in various archaeological sites such as Stonehenge,  the Temple of Kukulkan at  Chichen Itza and more. If I understand them rightly both researchers found that the builders of these sites were playing various acoustical properties to create their environments. I was particularly taken with the story about the Temple of Kukulkan which Lubman described as a sound recording device. I’ll see if I can get more about this later but the conference is about to start again.