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6,000-year-old walkie-talkie: Scientists revive prehistoric shells used for long-distance communication

Archaeologists in Spain have brought back the voice of the Neolithic by successfully playing ancient shells that had been buried for around 6,000 years. The instruments, made from large marine snail ...
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Scientists just played prehistoric shell trumpets used as ancient walkie talkies for the first time in 6,000 years

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 ...
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Oldest Shell Jewelry Workshop in Western Europe Dates Back 42,000 Years

Between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago, the Châtelperronian people lived in what is now modern-day France and northern Spain. Their tool industry is among the earliest known from this part of the world ...
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Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeastern southern Africa : marine shells and ostrich eggshell

Abstracts in English and French, p. 35. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!514076~!0#focus ...