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There are relics and written descriptions that proof the importance of the acoustic design in ancient buildings, but recently that research shed light on the awareness and the extent that it was implemented. Recent research into Palaeolithic cave-drawings has proved a correlation between places where a resonance occurred and is clearly influential and the place where the drawings occurred. This analysis proofs that the qualities of the acoustic design were being identified, recognized, recorded and appreciated over the last 30,000 years.
Prehistoric Acoustic Phenomena and early integration of aural senses in design reflects that the prehistoric age was not silence. It is to be investigated whether the understanding of acoustics behavior at prehistoric sites could further integrate our understanding of the ways acoustics was used in prehistoric monument.
A lot of these early structures visually dominate their surroundings, and all research work has tended to study their visible characteristics. In this context, the relationships between natural topography and architecture has been studied (Richards, 1996; Bradley, 1998), as well as intervisibility and spatial relationships and (Bergh, 1995; Woodward, 1996), construction materials in terms of aesthetics and meaning (Lynch, 1973; Parker Pearson, 1998) and the relation between orientations and astronomy (Ruggles, 1984). While these theories do not consider other senses such as aural, although they add valuable dimensions to our understanding of ancient buildings, they reveal how spaces added emotional aspects to experiences in the past.