02447nas a2200253   4500008004100000022002000041245012200061210006900183260000800252300001400260490000600274520152200280653002101802653002901823653002801852653002701880653002301907653002501930653003301955100002201988700001502010700001902025856014902044       2021                        eng d  a2624599X (ISSN)00aPreserving Human Perspectives in Cultural Heritage Acoustics: Distance Cues and Proxemics in Aural Heritage Fieldwork0 aPreserving Human Perspectives in Cultural Heritage Acoustics Dis  cmar  a156–1760 v33 aWe examine the praxis implications of our working definition of aural heritage: spatial acoustics as physically experienced by humans in cultural contexts; aligned with the aims of anthro-pological archaeology (the study of human life from materials). Here we report on human-centered acoustical data collection strategies from our project “Digital Preservation and Access to Aural Heritage via a Scalable, Extensible Method,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the USA. The documentation and accurate translation of human sensory perspectives is fundamental to the ecological validity of cultural heritage fieldwork and the preservation of heritage acoustics. Auditory distance cues, which enable and constrain sonic communication, relate to prox-emics, contextualized understandings of distance relationships that are fundamental to human social interactions. We propose that source–receiver locations in aural heritage measurements should be selected to represent a comprehensive range of proxemics according to site-contextualized spatial-use scenarios, and we identify and compare acoustical metrics for auditory distance cues from acoustical fieldwork we conducted using this strategy in three contrasting case-study heritage sites. This con-ceptual shift from architectural acoustical sampling to aural heritage sampling prioritizes culturally and physically plausible human auditory/sound-sensing perspectives and relates them to spatial proxemics as scaled architecturally.10aArchaeoacoustics10aarchaeological acoustics10aArchitectural acoustics10aauralization fieldwork10aheritage acoustics10ahistorical acoustics10aIntangible cultural heritage1 aKolar, Miriam, A.1 aKo, Doyuen1 aKim, Sungyoung  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123160188&doi=10.3390%2facoustics3010012&partnerID=40&md5=38197ae29e4e9c515742c6eb2283dce5