Mayan civilization that was once one of the most dominant cultures in mesoamerica. Centuries Old Buildings still bear witness to their amazing accomplishments and they might. And most Archaeological Research in the region has focused on them. But recent fights have shown that other peoples lived alongside the my a. Week ago on an expedition to north east and one tourists. This is the sleepy Little Village of waterloo on the northeast coast of honduras. The love of. Daily life here revolves around fishing but theres now a new attraction archaeologists from germany and switzerland believe the area used to be inhabited by an ancient civilize. Sation but theres been very Little Research on the ground here today. To we had to start from scratch were there even any archaeological sites here and if so in what condition we had absolutely no information. On that same followed clues from old records which suggest that this area now covered in forest and bush land was once home to a network of towns and villages their inhabitants appeared to have conducted trade with the legendary mayan the archaeologists are based in a house just outside guadalupe from where marcus kind of sees operations. The location was not a random choice its been for years since the project began. At 1st this is your the situation was pretty precarious which is why we looked for a place where wed have safety and found the grounds of a school surrounded by a wall and conveniently for us archaeologists there was a settlement mound that looked extremely promising like. Thats where we decided to start a Pilot Project to gauge potential for excavations. The project also means jobs for so many young local men while the School Principal is fascinated by the notion of people having settled over a 1000 years ago. I would never have thought that there was a window into our past right in front of and then uses after finding out whats behind that window is very exciting. We love to have to show everyone out of the loop might have a whole new previous history. That i study. History that peoples could profit from in the near future. Around the corner and in the excavation h. Q. The archaeologists have busy analyzing the a ray of all she finds they found ready over 100000 francisca fish is writing her doctoral thesis on the project says i know enough and this is one of a number of as we found out you can still play them and they produce a lot they found. They were found in a place where people deposited items of particular value to them. We also found cylinder seals. Diamonds they were used to paint patterns on fabrics or on to a person. They were told like this lets just add for the fact 5 off target. There are now these delicate little green stone and an analysis we have done revealed that they are indeed made of jade and the nearest source of shade is in guatemala so the people who lived here had very extensive trade routes which titles touch with. A number of the facts indicate that the communities who want settled here had trading relations with other peoples like the mayan but at the same time they retained an independent identity. Does the people here in northeastern honduras had a unique culture of their own not just. The team plan to search the entire region for last settlements and on the archaeological sites not an easy undertaking given the size and inaccessibility of the chair rain. Our work involves exploring areas on foot and talking to local people is also very helpful. In the physical a lot of farmers here have discovered things in their fields that provide clear evidence of old settlements in seattle spices thanks to the help of locals the researches keep on uncovering new sites. Theyre located along ancient past ways that centuries ago may have been important trade routes connecting inland areas with the coast. Another Little Village by the sea turned up a very special site discovered by a resident while he was digging a new latrine. Doesnt turn out to lisa help that really got our attention so we went down there and take a look when single foot of. The artifacts found here indicate the existence of not just any settlement but one that could be over 2000 years old. So what a beauty. It among the finds is the head of a small ceramic figure and exceptional discovery that so said the subject of speculation for the archaeologists. But there was probably a body attached here its going to might be a toy but it could be anything. There from here we can start scanning straight away. The next step is to create a detailed record of the head piece for further Research ArchaeologistMichael Lyons uses Cutting Edge Technology for the task in the shape of a laser scanner. Just minutes later the computer has created a perfect a virtual copy of the sculpture it would take several days to draw something comparable by hand. The Software Even enables the researches to reconstruct a complete bowl based on one single shot and in the long term that technology will help them to compile a more complete picture of this previously unknown civilization in honduras. Path the excavation in honduras has also been affected by the corona virus pandemic. The archaeologists had to stop work cover over that excites. And pretend to europe practically overnight. They left behind the majority of the objects that they discovered in hunter s. Respect to marcos and i asked him how the project is now fairing. Yami at 40 years documented objects like that little ceramic head in great detail using 3 d. Scans you know it does not help you to pass the time while youre away from the site. Its in the top yes indeed it does. Yet so its not just because of the corona virus that we dont have access to our finds schtick on. Its Standard Practice to spend several weeks or months on the ground documenting objects and the sites where we did. Things and then we take all the documentation back home and work on it for the rest of the year. Was made. On. What we did with these pieces of pottery we scanned them in 3 d. So thats an added bonus that. Its like we have them right there in front of us just in virtual form. We can turn them any which way as if they were real 3 dimensional objects. In a flat can you tell us about the discoveries youve made tank and. This could just well weve learned quite a lot. Its very fascinating to see how this one little site we conducted the dig was connected to the wider world of Central America or even middle america. We have a range of techniques to analyze what we found the pottery and other things and they let us piece together the history. Shes difficult we can also reconstruct the relations or networks these people maintained back then. These them and she. Explained it to me and told us so you know working in hunter s. With a Demonstration Team i saw you dug up treasure and took some of them with you to any lies that hasnt and its condoms actually placing my say that it all sounds a bit colonialists. How do you respond to that exactly. Thats the. Trouble i would most definitely disagree archaeological excavations are quite different nowadays as if we dont just take everything we find with us just a very very small set of samples that we want to analyze using techniques not available in the country where we do the dig. We export them for a limited period of time and then we send them all back. What we also find is that people there are really interested in the past suddenly theyre looking at thousands of years of previous history. That changes the way they feel about themselves. Yes plus theres the idea of seeing the objects going on display in a Little Museum there its a really big deal so times have truly changed since the colonial era. Few 99 you thanks for those exciting insights and for taking the time to talk to us. Sure. This is what an open rino like the ones found in 100 sounds like. Music appears to be a fundamental human meat possibly dating back to the very dawn of our existence even if the forms that it takes to fit from culture to culture. Thats a. Good one is music so important to us. And tell it as it influence our feelings. This number has gone down in film history its the music that ratchets up the tension and literally gets and asking. How come mess no one can measure the way music affects up to 50 different parameters in the body. And. Listening to music changes the brain waves heart rate and certain hormone levels hes. Going to have a to is a psychologist who studies what music does to us and how it does it he says music is closely tied up with our emotions. Music probably originates in the melodies of speech people took something of the emotion embodied in speech and transferred it to music that theory suggests that we can manipulate peoples mood and mental states through music. On the. Restaurant itself and play music in the background its influences what we choose to eat how fast we consume it and how much with protests. To play. An experiment in england showed that with Classical Music playing guests who are willing to pay 10 percent more for their food even if they were not fond of that kind of music. You dont have to be a great fan of Classical Music to feel that its somehow meaningful and dignified. And as we listen to it we tend to ascribe those attributes to other things we see around us would be able. Other studies found that people adapt the rate at which they choose their food to the music that listening to fast beats hectic. A slow tempo langar rest safer. If the music feels slow dinahs linger long and string up to 40 percent more in fact at least when its bruce. Still when it comes to our taste buds there are limits to the influence of music. As in. Their money its not as if the music playing in a restaurant prevents us from registering the quality of the food. As its power doesnt quite extend that far and. Musically like activates areas of the brain associated with a phrygian succeeds in firing up the limbic system in pumps out dope to me commonly known as the feel good old man not only makes you feel how they said it also makes you more relaxed and more active and in your arms is your moment. And not holds true in its claims never. Went to the dining. Hall shopping restauranteurs and retailers want you to feel great. Around and. If a Department Store wants to have music playing in the background it has to be music that appeals to everyone but the public is Diverse School kids buying sweets elderly people with lots of time on their hands if you want to manipulate people by means of music they all have to like it but thank goodness it doesnt always work out that way. A study from the us found that when a wine shop page for french music it sells more french wines. And more german lines when it played jim and music. But things are not always so simple when it comes to the impact of music on the propensity to purchase such things as. They can work well for example in a jeans shop you hire a d. J. To play live the audience are all about the same age and its clear what kind of music they listen to in their free time. So if you play that you can achieve quite a lot thats the strategic goal but in general one should not overestimate the effectiveness. Of. The best laid plans. Even the gracious jeffords to manipulate. To the desired outcome. Is. Music is not entirely accessible to scientific study. Theres always a human being behind it who composes and engages with us on the basis of intuition and emotion. That has to be just right if its to hit the spot. Getting to one study music can trigger at least 13 different emotions. Are you getting goosebumps. Even from canada has a question about that. Why do some people get goosebumps when they listen to music. Can affect us deeply. It can spark emotions and move us profoundly personal tastes aside. It can trigger memories and transport us back to a place where weve heard it before. Several areas of the brain are activated when we listen to music but studies show that some of us get goosebumps and some of us dont. Researchers affirmed that people with musical training and people who are open to new experiences more likely to feel chills right up their spine in response to music. This could be because they have denser fibers connecting the ordered tree cortex of the brain to the areas that process emotions which means these areas communicate better if youre the type of person who experiences intense emotions youre more likely to get goosebumps from listening to music too. Of course some music makes your hair stand on end of for the wrong reasons. The researchers also found that luke human voice is what most often causes goosebumps. Was. The cello and the viola are also very moving and incidentally if a piece of music gives you goosebumps youre more likely to remember it. Well maybe its met some sneezing that stands here in the oceans or helps keep your cognitive skills. Yestreen compose it was certainly a superstar in the world of Classical Music. He created more than 1000 pieces of music works that are often said to have almost magical power. Just listening to mozart really make you smarter. The socalled mozart effect which was identified by researchers in 1993. All they gave a group of College Students a 10 minute audio sample to listen to. With soundtracks ranging from silence. To a relaxation tape aucklands you. To a mozart piano concerto. The students were then asked to take a spatial intelligence test. Those subjects who had been listening to mozart performed better than the other groups registering spatial i. Q. Scores 8 or 9 points higher not a huge leap but certainly a jump. That said the intelligence boost lasted all of 15 minutes at most and then it disappeared. But thats surprising if short lived effect triggered a media frenzy mozart makes you smart was in all the headlines. The impact was especially great in the United States babies born in georgia and tennessee were given a mozart cd while kindergarten kids in florida were treated to an hour of mozart music every day. To the Scientific Community also seemed enthralled researchers reenacted the original experiment but struggled to confirm the mozart effect it was replicated in some tests but not in others 2. Meanwhile there was a suspicion that the music merely improve the mood of test subjects giving their brain some brief stimulation another question soon a rose doesnt have to be mozart. As it turned out music by other artists had the same effect whether a sonata by schubert or a song by the 990 s. British band blur. So the notion that only mozart makes you smarter and permanently so was just a myth but the big question remains how does music affect the brain. Our great matter is in fact colored by practically everything we do that includes listening to music and even more so playing music what ever the music practicing and performing leave a mark. In trouble as the neural pathways linking the 2 halves of the brain tend to be fewer but thicker which is perhaps why theyre so good at certain swift and complex movements. Surely a well trained 5th brain is capable of more than a standard specimen well there are plenty of studies that claim playing music makes you smarter. Experiments showed that people with a musical background were better at certain things. They might have better language memory skills for example or were better able to remember things the. Children in particular performed better on the memory front and in intelligence tests if they had had at least a year of Music Lessons the problem is even if playing an instrument goes along with higher i. Q. Test scores it doesnt mean the one causes the other. Einstein played the violin and was an ace in physics wouldnt he have been a science whiz even if he had never learned an instrument. Playing music and being intelligent may well cooccur but whether one contributes causal each of the other is highly questionable. More than a 100 studies over the past 20 years have claimed there is a causal connection without sufficient evidence to back up the claim. Like muscles the brain can be given a workout but training in one activity doesnt mean you perform better in others if the 2 skills are very different being good at the one is not likely to make you better at the other practicing the piano all day is likely to make you a better pianist. But will it make you better at solving differential equations. Hardly. Still practicing an instrument not only lets you play music it can also teach you that practice does make a significant difference that can boost your selfconfidence and willingness to really apply yourself. So to recapitulate does music make you smarter well theres no straightforward answer but quite apart from any possible link to intelligence music is a treasure and a joy in its own right. Whether in the form of mozart pop or hip hop. But. Thats all for now thank you for joining us for morning pressing stories about science and technology visit our website well be back next week with the 1st edition of tomorrow today until then. Dear friends dear antone theres a scene when your mother was born in 1069 the one was already 8 years old you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in a dream in the final. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history and the berlin wall our family and costs. Cysteine minutes on d w. M thats all feeds in my times. When i come from abroad your demands an important time to solve crimes meeting new ones and for a mission and when i was young my country was wrong in. The. More problems keep most people want to cause them. 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