It might be a bit of hocus pocus, but an article in the New Scientist this week has a little sound byte of what (perhaps) a Neanderthal might sound like. The little file attached to the news story is a nicely low register "E" sound. The sound is a computer simulation of the noise that could have come from a new reconstructed larynx. Researcher Robert McCarthy based his reconstructions on the (somewhat criticized) studies of Phil Leiberman.
Yeah, I know. Pretty out there. But, who knows? It's kind of a nice voice.
Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years, Ewen Callaway in the New Scientist.
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