About the Author

Graeme Lawson is an archaeologist, musician and historian with a lifelong fascination for music's fossil record. He has held senior research fellowships at Cambridge and the Freie Universit t Berlin, pioneering the application of science to music's prehistory and tracing musical continuities through time and across continents.

An acknowledged authority in his field, his ability to communicate with the wider public has made him much sought after, both as performer and speaker, and has done much to raise the profile of music archaeology. His writing brings into sharp focus humankind's profound and enduring relationship with sound and music.