Recent publications by Graeme Lawson: 2006-2008
3.2
2006. ‘Large scale-small scale: medieval stone buildings, early
medieval timber halls and the problem of the lyre.’
85-94 in G. Lawson and
C. Scarre (eds.),
Archaeoacoustics. (Proceedings of the conference Acoustics, Space and
Intentionality. Identifying intentionality in the ancient use of acoustic space and structure
,
held in Cambridge, 27-29 June 2003). Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research, Monographs Series. ISBN-10: 1-902937-35-X; ISBN-13: 9781-902937-35-9; ISSN:
1363-1349 (McDonald Institute).
Keywords: ACOUSTICS - BUILDINGS AND SPACES -
INSTRUMENTS AND DEVICES - LITURGICAL CHANT - INTENTION - TRADITION - EARLY
MEDIEVAL - MEDIEVAL - GREAT BRITAIN - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.2

2006 (with F. d'Errico). ‘The Sound Paradox. How to assess the
acoustic significance of archaeological evidence?’
41-57 in G. Lawson and
C. Scarre (eds.),
Archaeoacoustics. (Proceedings of the conference Acoustics, Space and
Intentionality. Identifying intentionality in the ancient use of acoustic space and structure,

held in Cambridge, 27-29 June 2003). Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research, Monographs Series. ISBN-10: 1-902937-35-X; ISBN-13: 9781-902937-35-9; ISSN:
1363-1349 (McDonald Institute).
Keywords: ACOUSTICS - BUILDINGS AND SPACES -
INSTRUMENTS AND DEVICES - EPISTEMOLOGY - INTENTION - TRADITION - MIDDLE
PALAEOLITHIC - UPPER PALAEOLITHIC - MEDIEVAL - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.2

2006 (ed. with C Scarre). Archaeoacoustics. (Proceedings of the
conference
Acoustics, Space and Intentionality. Identifying intentionality in
the ancient use of acoustic space and structure
, held in Cambridge, 27-29
June 2003, with papers by I. Cross, F. d’Errico, P. Devereux, G. Lawson, I.
Morley, I. Reznikoff, E. Rocconi, S. Waller, A. Watson, E. Zubrow and
others).
Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Monographs Series.
ISBN-10: 1-902937-35-X; ISBN-13: 9781-902937-35-9; ISSN: 1363-1349 (McDonald Institute).
Keywords: ACOUSTICS - BUILDINGS AND SPACES - INSTRUMENTS AND DEVICES -
INTENTION - TRADITION - DOCUMENTS - PREHISTORY - CLASSICAL - EARLY MEDIEVAL -
MEDIEVAL - EUROPE - AMERICAS.
Abstract: 4.2

2006. 'Sites, Landscapes and "Portable Antiquities": the nature and
value of context in the music-archaeological record.'
3-14 in E. Hickmann,
A. A. Both & R. Eichmann (Hrsg.),
Studien zur Musikarchäologie V: Musik-archäologie im
Kontext. Archäologische Befunde, historische Zusammenhänge, soziokulturelle
Beziehungen
. Orient-Archäologie series, Band 20. Rahden, Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf.
ISSN 1434-162X. ISBN 3-89646-650-X.
Keywords: INSTRUMENTS - LYRES - TIBIAE - ALL
PERIODS - EXCAVATED FINDS - STRAY FINDS - PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES -
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT - DECONTEXTUALISATION - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.3a

2008a. 'Representation and reality in the Late Roman world: some
conflicts between excavated finds and popular images of Pan-pipes,
lyres and lutes.'
179-196 in A. A. Both, R. Eichmann, E. Hickmann & L.-C. Koch (Hrsg.)
Studien zur Musikarchäologie VI: Herausforderung und Ziele der Musikarchäologie. 2008.
ISBN 3-89646-652-5. Orient-Archäologie series, Band 22. Rahden, Westf.: Verlag Marie
Leidorf.
Keywords: INSTRUMENTS - EXCAVATED FINDS - IMAGES - ICONOGRAPHY -
LUTES - LYRES - HELLENISTIC - ROMAN - MEDIEVAL - EUROPE - MEDITERRANEAN.
Abstract: 4.3a

2008b. 'Conserving the future of music's distant past: some thoughts on
the development of music-archaeological conservation.'
389-400 in A. A.
Both, R. Eichmann, E. Hickmann & L.-C. Koch (Hrsg.) Studien zur Musikarchäologie VI:
Herausforderung und Ziele der Musikarchäologie. 2008. ISBN 3-89646-652-5.
Orient-Archäologie series, Band 22. Rahden, Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf.
Keywords:
EXCAVATED FINDS - INSTRUMENTS - BONE FLUTES - LYRES - SURFACES -
CONSERVATION - ALL PERIODS - GREAT BRITAIN - GERMANY - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.3a


cambridge music-archaeological research <http://www.orfeo.co.uk>
Early medieval
lyre bridge from
a robbed site
near Scole,
Suffolk. In the
British Museum,
London
Lyre from the
Anglo-Saxon
cemetery at Bergh
Apton, Norfolk:
remains of the
surviving wooden
mortice-and-tenon
joint
1978
Copper-alloy tuning key from a site near
Wetheringsett, Suffolk. With a late medieval
bone tuning peg to scale.
2006
click panel for details
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