Chavín de Huántar Archaeological Acoustics Project
Initiated in 2007 as an archaeoacoustical collaboration between Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and Archaeology/Anthropology


Above, left: researcher Miriam Kolar using the bouquet array to make acoustic measurements in the Lanzon Gallery; right: measuring duct acoustics.
Photos: José Luis Cruzado Coronel

Current research includes collaborative aural heritage fieldwork, co-creative archaeo-ethnomusicological performance studies of the ChavĂ­n pututus, computational acoustical modeling, and auralization demonstrations of site and instrument acoustics.

In 2013, Project Director and Principal Investigator Miriam A. Kolar published her dissertation Archaeological Psychoacoustics at Chavín de Huántar, Perú, which explores the relevance and study of human auditory perception in archaeology, via the case study of auditory localization experiments conducted on site.