Voices in the Stone: Rebuilding Ancient Speech from Fossils

We have all seen fossils of bones and teeth, but have you ever thought about a fossilized voice? It sounds impossible. After all, breath and sound don't leave behind bones. However, scientists working in the field of Chrono-Linguistic Archaeometry are finding ways to hear the voices of the distant past by looking at something unexpected: resin. This is the sticky stuff that leaks out of trees and eventually turns into amber. It turns out that resin is great at catching more than just bugs. It can actually catch the physical remains of the parts of the body that make sound, and even the