If someone hands you a large, spiral seashell, chances are that your instinct will drive you to hold it up to your ear. Thousands of years ago, however, prehistoric communities in modern-day Spain ...

After 18,000 years of silence, an ancient musical instrument played its first notes. The last time anyone heard a sound from the conch shell trumpet, thick sheets of ice still covered most of Europe.

Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used ...

In a series of small, clustered archaeological sites along the Llobregat River basin in Catalonia, a pattern has quietly emerged. The same object, found in multiple Neolithic contexts, reappears with ...

Archaeologists have modeled the auditory range of conch-shell trumpets in the 9th–11th century US Southwest, proposing that the sound was key in the structuring of pre-Columbian Pueblo communities. At ...

Photographs of Neolithic shell trumpets from Catalonia that still produce sound today. Credit: M. López-García, M. Díaz-Andreu, 2025 All the specimens are made from the same species of marine shell, ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Modified conch shell used ...

CHENNAI: Dejected by the inauspicious tag that the conch shell trumpet has always had, a group of city residents has taken up a unique endeavour to assert that the conch is not blown only at the ‘end ...