A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, which recognizes Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the ...

As part of the Weis Center for the Performing Art’s year-long Trees Series, the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies will present “Hidden Sounds of the Americas,” at 7:30 p.m.

In total, archaeologist Robert Madden observed 659 sets of Native American dice from 57 archaeological sites across 12 different states. Native Americans were making dice and using probabilty theory ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...

(Middle Holocene), NMNH-A437076, NMNH-550791; (b) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Early Holocene), UW-11327; (c, f) Agate Basin, Wyoming (Late Pleistocene), UW-OA111, UW-OA448 ...

Caption Figure 9. Folsom diagnostic and probable Native American dice. (Figure 9a, b, d, and g: Agate Basin, Wyoming, UW-OA005, UW-OA109, UW-OA111, UW-OA448, courtesy of the Department of Anthropology ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...