Friday, March 19, 2004
Neolithic Rock n Roll
Music has a long and ancient history in the world and runs the gamut of chants and grunts to bone whistles and clackers. BBC News has a short piece available that looks at a recently rediscovered site in southern India that is not only a petroglyph site, but was a gathering place, they think, for shamans and others to gather to make music. With rocks.
The piece is titled “Ancient Indians made ‘rock music’.” I wonder if the archaeologists have considered that the site just may be an early form of a men’s drumming gathering.
Via Fred Lapides.
