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The whistle was discovered after the 1999 excavation of an Aztec temple at the Tlatelolco site, in Mexico City by archaeologists, revealed the remains of a 20-year-old sacrificial victim clutching various musical instruments, among them a small ceramic skull-shaped whistle.[2] This artifact, later dubbed the "Aztec death whistle,"[3] garnered public interest. The whistle's sounds, analyzed through its functioning mechanism, have been noted to resemble the sound of wind and fall within the human hearing sensitivity range. Experimental models of death whistles have been constructed and tested to explore hypotheses and for use in conferences and demonstrations, given that the original ancient resonators cannot be utilized for these purposes.[1] A common misconception is that this whistle produced a sharp shriek-like sound. However, these sounds credited as the Aztec death whistle are actually produced by much larger reproductions of the whistle. Music archeologist Arnd Adje Both, who has

Aztec death whistle - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ancient whistle used by the Mexica The Aztec death whistle or ehecachichtli is a type of whistle formerly used by the Mexica people. Though the original whistles likely made a wind-like sound, modern replicas usually produce a high-pitched shrieking sound and are most commonly used to scare off people or animals. [ 1 ] Discovery [ edit ] In the late 1990s, at the Tlatelolco site in Mexico City , the excavation of a temple dedicated to the Aztec wind deity Ehecatl revealed the remains of a 20-year-old

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