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Recordist's notes
Recording taken inside one of the Domus de Janas at the Necropoli di Sas Concas. It is a tomb carved into solid rock, used by Neolithic and Copper Age communities around 2700 BCE. This tomb was filled with the nests of some insect similar to a wasp, but it looked differently.. The entire low ceiling was covered with their nests. They got annoyed when we went inside, but they weren’t aggressive; they just became more active. When I started recording, they went back to what they were doing, flying out and returning to their nests. Outside, on the grounds of the Necropolis, there was a horse that could be heard at one moment. (Tascam FR-AV2 + LOM Uši Pro)
About the place
Nuoro is a town of about 35,948 people in Sardinia, Italy. OttoAnna lists 32 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: LOM microphones (Uši). Small omni microphones from the Slovak LOM collective, popular for quiet nature recording.
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Sources & credits
- “Onieri/Oniferi, Sardynia, Włochy - burial niche at the Necropoli di Sas Concas” by maciej janasik – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0