Researchers have discovered a form of ancient sound device in Catalonia, Spain, as published in the journal Antiquity. The device in question is a Charonia lampas seashell, which they believe was used ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

If you were standing on the edge of a canyon in the San Juan Basin of the Colorado Plateau about 1,200 years ago, you may have heard a loud, distant sound reverberating off the rock faces and ...

Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...

Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for producing an extremely loud noise, scientists have discovered. The tests ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Tag with object reads: "Trumpet of ...

I joined Ars for the technology and astrophysics, but it's these archaeology articles that I've really found the most fascinating of late. It's really amazing how much we can learn from such ancient ...

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge of ...