but what is THE MOST COOL is the recording (it's at the story link below) of the death whistles themselves (well from what i understand recreations of them)
Researchers re-create pre-Columbian sounds
Noisemakers made of natural materials were integral part of life
By Julie WatsonMEXICO CITY - Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.
If death had a sound, this was it.........
Alexandre Meneghini / ASSOCIATED PRESS
A replica of a flute, created by pre-Columbian sounds expert Roberto Velazquez.
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