Analysis demonstrates the value of studying non-western cultures to bring important new insights to mainstream musicology and linguistics. Musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric…
A city’s street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published…
Machine Learning Opens New Doors in Archaeology Rock art of human figures created over thousands of years in Arnhem Land has been put through a…
Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden instrument. Music is an art,…
A new article in the Review of English Studies argues that a manuscript translation of Tacitus’s Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved…
Skeletons buried in Israel’s Upper Galilee reveal migration from ancient Turkey and Iran, TAU researchers say. An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University,…
The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across southern and central India and surrounding countries,…
Some new diagnostic tests for foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, Campylobacter and Escherichia coli hinder the ability of public health officials to detect outbreaks. The problem…
Evolution is fueled by environmental factors, like climate, or geography. Cultural factors can play their part as well in the form of traditions and behaviors…