Making Sense of Landscape: A New Study of Sound Propagation between Tarquinian Funerary and Habitation Settings

Abstract The study of pre-Roman landscape settings has progressed across a long trajectory in its consideration urban and rural adaptations Etruria. Such studies, while providing valuable details regarding social organization, have not considered the unique aural nature landscape, particularly with respect to funerary settings. Nowhere is this more evident than painted chambered tombs. Our understanding Etruscan tombs still largely guided by analytic studies tomb paintings, epigraphic sources, typologies. Thus, bilateral relationship between each tomb’s setting habitation contexts been explored from solely visual perspective, rather multisensory consequently, ritual performed around space remains unclear. A further perceptual constructs involving information offers new way forward confronting these realities. This article utilizes acoustic modeling tools illustrate potential range audibility Necropoli dei Monterozzi Tarquinia various locations landscape. Acoustic spatial data collected 2019 inside series Calvario area provides environs. preliminary suggests that can greatly enhance our practices Tarquinia, how areas may engaged landscapes.