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Stone Age Sound

Can sound solve the mysteries of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic grave at Newgrange in Ireland? With Joanna Pinnock. From 2001.

The Passage Grave at Newgrange in Ireland - built around 5,000 years ago - is one of the most well-preserved Neolithic sites of its kind.

Archaeologist Aaron Watson and acoustics expert Dave Keating visit the site and conduct a series of tests to try to determine how Neolithic man might have experienced such a monument through sound.

Presented by Joanna Pinnock.

Producer: Sheena Duncan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.

30 minutes

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