Big paleontological news tonight at the release of a report on the finding of 1.8 million year old human-lineage footprint from Homo ergaster/erectus. (Press release here) It confirms the supposition that the human line was already walking very much as people do today. It is too bad we cannot hope to find a fossilized voice print somewhere.
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I remember reading something something (oh so many) years ago about using lasers to 'read' lathe-turned etchings in ancient glass. I would imagine that this would not be ancient enough but the 'idea' seems compelling (granted there would have to be a lot of noise to filter). Unfortunately, I have never seen this referenced since so I do not even know if it actually happened.
Posted by: GrimJack | March 03, 2009 at 08:59 PM
Me again - I found this (http://keatstelescope.blogspot.com/) pretty old stuff but about half-way down was a post titled "Two-tongued but not tongue-tied" that might be of interest to you (if the info is not too old).
Posted by: GrimJack | March 03, 2009 at 09:23 PM