ARND ADJE BOTHS’ research projects
2010-
Musical Instruments and Sound Objects of Xochicalco, Mexico. In collaboration with Silvia Garza Tarazona and Norberto González Crespo, Proyecto Especial Xochicalco.
2009-
Aztec Musical Instruments of Calixtlahuaca, Cuexcomate, Capilco, and Yautepec. In collaboration with Michael Smith, Arizona State University. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2008-
Acoustics of northeast Honduran ocarinas of the Cocal period (AD 1000-1530), Moyne-Feachem collection, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In collaboration with Paul Healy, Carrie Dennett, and Mary Hill Harris. With the assistance of Christoph Plewe.
2006-
Music Archaeology of Teotihuacan, Mexico (150 BC - 600/750 AD). Sound artefacts of Teotihuacan will be analyzed in musicarchaeological terms (find contexts and distribution, organology, iconography, acoustics). Supported by the Zona de Monumentos Arqueológicos de Teotihuacán (ZMAT) and the Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, Arizona State University. With the assistance of Doro Arndt.
2004-
Musical Instruments of Preclassic Mesoamerica: On the Organological Genesis in Prehispanic Societies. In cooperation with Patricia Ochoa, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico.
2004
3D-Computer Tomography of Prehispanic Sound Artifacts. Supported by the Ethnological Museum Berlin and the St. Gertrauden Hospital, Berlin.
2003-2008
Experimental replication and acoustics of Oliva shell-rattles from the Aztec Templo Mayor. A joint project with Adrián Velázquez Castro, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
2001-
Music Archaeology of the Offerings of the Aztec Templo Mayor (Late Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1325-1521 AD). Sponsered by NaFöG and DAAD, supported by the Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City.
1999-2006
Study of prehispanic sound artefacts preserved in the Ethnological Museum Berlin. Supported by the Ethnological Museum Berlin.
1998
Fieldwork on the musical tradition of the Concheros, Mexico-City. Recordings for the Phonogram-Archive, Ethnological Museum Berlin. Supported by the Berlin Phonogram-Archive.