Or, more accurately, one of the oldest. A massive conch shell, ... Set of red dots forming a bison silhouette (length, 1.10 m). (6) Geometric sign formed by a double line of dots.

Only in 2016 did researchers begin to analyze the shell anew. Artifacts like this conch help paint a picture of how cave dwellers lived, said Carole Fritz, an archaeologist at the University of ...

The Marsoulas conch shell Carole Fritz et al. 2021. Conch shells have been used as sacred objects or musical instruments across history, with the authors suggesting the previously oldest known ...

Yves Mondelus, a master conch cracker at the popular Da Conch Shack restaurant demonstrates how to remove the meat from the shell. “If you are on a deserted island all you need is a hammer and a ...

Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France ...

WASHINGTON — A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a ...