What is it about?
The /xam said that they could "move bees" using a musical instrument called a !goin !goin. The article considers this proposition in terms of vibroacoustics.
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Why is it important?
There exists an idea, at least among the /xam San, that it is possible for humans to communicate with bees by means of sound/vibration.
Perspectives
Bees are beset by colony collapse disorder (CCD), neonicotinoid poison, loss of habitat and other ailments but as the /xam San example indicates this was not always so: there was a time when bees and humans co-existed without detriment to honeybees.
Neil Rusch
University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies
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This page is a summary of: Sound artefacts, Before Farming, May 2018, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/hgr.2017.11.
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