Recreating the sound of Aztec 'Whistles of Death'

[Lithos]

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/30/pre-columbiansounds.ap/index.html

I've always been interested in attempts to reconstruct music, language, and other aural ephemera from archaeology. This is cool stuff.

[KatyMan]

1. that was really cool

thanks. I have to say, though, that listening to the sounds really freaked out our cats :)