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Flower World – Mundo Florido, vol. 6
Situating Inca Sonics: Experimental Music Archaeology at Huánuco Pampa, Peru |
Miriam A. Kolar | Abstract |
Variaciones en las representaciones iconográficas de músicos en la costa norte del Perú precolombino: Una discusión sobre roles sociales y prácticas rituales desde una perspectiva diacrónica |
Daniela La Chioma y Marcio Figueiredo | Abstract |
Aliento ístmico: Artefactos sonoros de la Costa Rica precolombina en las colecciones museales bruselenses |
Jean-François Brohée | Abstract |
A Somber Song: Music and Violence in Ancient Mesoamerica |
Jared Katz and Travis W. Stanton | Abstract |
The Materiality of Music: A Technological and Functional Study of Two Mesoamerican Omichicahuaztli |
Valeria Bellomia and Ivana Fiore | Abstract |
A Survey and Analysis of Sound-Making Artifacts from Bluff Shelter Sites in the Ozark Plateau Region of the Central United States |
James A. Rees, Jr. | Abstract |

Flower World – Mundo Florido, vol. 5
Indicadores de la prehistoria musical del norte de Chile: Las Flautas de Pan del sitio arqueológico Azapa-6, valle de Azapa |
Andro Schampke C. | Abstract |
An Early Colonial Testimony of Musical Change and Continuity in the Guatemalan Highlands |
Matthias Stöckli | Abstract |
Sounds and Sights: Sweeping the Way at Bonampak |
Mary Miller | Abstract |
Los artefactos sonoros de Xochicalco |
Arnd Adje Both e Ivonne Giles | Abstract |
Ceramic Vessel Rattles from Tala and Teuchitlan, Jalisco, West Mexico |
Kong F. Cheong, Mads S. Jorgensen, and Roger Blench | Abstract |
The Native American Flute Tradition in the Southern Plains, Focusing on the Kiowa and Comanche Tribes |
Paula J. Conlon | Abstract |

The Study of the Ancient and Medieval Harp: A Bibliography of Books and Articles from 1800-2015

Flower World – Mundo Florido, vol. 4
What Do Moche Whistles Want? |
Dianne Scullin | Abstract |
Tara: La estética del sonido pulsante – Una síntesis |
Arnaud Gérard A. | Abstract |
Signifying Instruments: Reflections on the Magic of the Ethnographer’s Sound Recordings |
Jonathan D. Hill | Abstract |
A Case Study of Maya Avian Ocarinas from Pook’s Hill, Belize |
Kristina Nielsen and Christophe Helmke | Abstract |
Ti qui to co: The Combinations of Syllables in the Cantares Mexicanos – A Comparison of Sound Reconstructions |
Matthias Lewy | Abstract |
The World in Actions: Ritual Knowledge and Spatial Conceptions Among the Náayeri from Western Mexico |
Margarita Valdovinos | Abstract |
Post-Contact Trade Bells Among the Indians of the Southeastern United States |
John M. Connaway | Abstract |

Music Archaeological Bulletin, 1984-1986

Archaeologia Musicalis, 1987-1990

Flower World – Mundo Florido, vol. 3
Answering Herzog (1935): An Historical Model for North American Indian Music |
Richard Keeling | Abstract |
Turtles, Faces, and Cups: Extending the Inventory of Possible Rattling Soundmakers Depicted in the Spiro Shell Engravings |
James A. Rees, Jr. | Abstract |
Music of the Center Place: The Instruments of Chaco Canyon |
Emily J. Brown | Abstract |
The Quadruple Flutes of Teotihuacan Resurfaced |
Dorothee Judith Arndt | Abstract |
Ancient Maya Musical Encore: Analysis of Ceramic Musical Instruments from Pacbitun, Belize and the Maya Subarea |
Kong F. Cheong, Roger Blench, Paul F. Healy, and Terry G. Powis | Abstract |
El quego xilla en la antigua Oaxaca: Una aproximación a los idiófonos de ludimiento |
Gonzalo Sánchez Santiago y Ricardo Higelin Ponce de León | Abstract |
Arqueomusicología de las trompetas de caracol andinas de concha y cerámica: Distribución, organología y acústica |
Alexander Herrera, Juan Pablo Espitia Hurtado, Jorge Gregorio García Moncada y Alejandro Morris | Abstract |
Beyond Music: Non-Musical Uses of Music Instruments in Paracas and Nasca Iconography |
Christiane Clados | Abstract |

Music & Ritual:
Bridging Material & Living Cultures
The Round-Bodied Lute (Ruan) and the Ideal of the ‘Cultivated Gentleman’ in Fourth- to Eighth-Century Chinese Funerary Arts: A Preliminary Study |
Ingrid Furniss | Abstract |
Divinized Instruments and Divine Communication in Mesopotamia |
John C. Franklin | Abstract |
Sounds for Gods, Sounds for Humans: Triton Shell Horns in Phoenician and Punic Contexts from the Western Mediterranean |
Antonio M. Sáez Romero and José M. Gutiérrez López | Abstract |
Music and Death: Razors, Stelae and Divinities in the Punic Mediterranean |
Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran | Abstract |
Paestum: Ritual Music in Honour of the Dead |
Daniela Castaldo | Abstract |
The Archaeoacoustics of a Sixth-Century Christian Structure: San Vitale, Ravenna |
David J. Knight | Abstract |
Acoustics, Architecture, and Instruments in Ancient Chavín de Huántar, Perú: An Integrative, Anthropological Approach to Archaeoacoustics and Music Archaeology |
Miriam A. Kolar | Abstract |
The Flight of the Sorcerers: Sound, Power and Hallucinogens in Wari Expansion Strategies during the Middle Horizon, Peru (ca. AD 500-900) |
Mónica Gudemos | Abstract |
Membrane Drums as Cosmic Symbols and Shamanic Portals in the Shell Art of Spiro, a Mississippian Mound Site in Oklahoma |
James A. Rees, Jr. | Abstract |
Ethnoarchaeomusicology: Social Reproduction, Music (Sound Production) and Ideology in the Rituals of Alutiiq and Yup’ik Societies |
Jesús Salius Gumà | Abstract |
Sound and Ritual in Levantine Art: A Preliminary Study |
Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Carlos García Benito | Abstract |
Vaccean Rattles: Toys or Magic Protectors? |
Carlos Sanz Mínguez, Fernando Romero Carnicero, Roberto De Pablo Martínez, and Cristina Górriz Gañán | Abstract |
The Ritual Significance of the Scandinavian Bronze Age Lurs: An Examination Based on Ethnographic Analogies |
Gjermund Kolltveit | Abstract |
A Shaman Drum Hammer from the Medieval City of Turku, Finland |
Riitta Rainio | Abstract |
Representations of Dance on Late-Medieval Bosnian Gravestones |
Zdravko Blažeković | Abstract |
Ritual and Symbolic Aspects of the Midwinter Horn in the Netherlands |
Annemies Tamboer | Abstract |
The Return of Ritual: Sacred Popular Music Cultures and Cults |
Rupert Till | Abstract |

Carl Engel: The Music of the Most Ancient Nations
(Commented Reprint)
Carl Engel 1818-1882: Music’s Archaeologist in Victorian London | A Timeline |
Graeme Lawson |
Carl Engel and the non-Darwinian Revolution |
Bennett Zon |
Carl Engel’s Views on the Music of Ancient Assyria |
Sam Mirelman |
Carl Engel and the Earliest Research into Ancient Egyptian Music – Carl Engel et les premières recherches menées sur la musique égyptienne ancienne |
Sibylle Emerit |
Carl Engel’s Perspectives of the Hebrews and their Music |
Theodore W. Burgh |