id
	11387
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11387
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Making Sense of Landscape: A New Study of Sound Propagation between Tarquinian Funerary and Habitation Settings
Creator
	Ortoleva, Jacqueline
Date
	2022
Language
	eng
Rights
	De Gruyter expressly reserves the right to use all content for commercial text and data mining within the meaning of Section 44b of the German Copyright Act.
Abstract
	The study of pre-Roman landscape settings has progressed across a long trajectory in its consideration of urban and rural adaptations in Etruria. Such studies, while providing valuable details regarding social organization, have not considered the unique aural nature of the landscape, particularly with respect to funerary settings. Nowhere is this more evident than with painted chambered tombs. Our understanding of Etruscan painted tombs is still largely guided by analytic studies of tomb paintings, epigraphic sources, and typologies. Thus, the bilateral relationship between each tomb’s landscape setting and habitation contexts has been explored from a solely visual perspective, rather than from a multisensory perspective, and consequently, ritual performed in and around the tomb space remains unclear. A further understanding of perceptual constructs involving aural information offers a new way forward in confronting these realities. This article utilizes acoustic modeling tools to illustrate the potential range of audibility between the Necropoli dei Monterozzi in Tarquinia and various locations in the landscape. Acoustic and spatial data collected in 2019 inside a series of painted tombs in the Calvario area of the Necropoli dei Monterozzi in Tarquinia provides further information regarding the painted tomb’s landscape setting and its environs. The preliminary study suggests that aural information can greatly enhance our understanding of funerary practices in Tarquinia, particularly with respect to how habitation areas in Tarquinia may have engaged with funerary landscapes.
Is Part Of
	Etruscan and Italic Studies
Cited by
	11072
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2022-0004
Issn
	2566-9109
Issue
	1-2
Pages
	79-112
Short title
	Making Sense of Landscape
Uri
	https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/etst-2022-0004/html
Volume
	25
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/R9HIR9Y8/item-list
Tag
	Tarquinia
	acoustic modeling
	auditory
	funerary architecture
	sensory archeology
	tomb painting

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