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 ...
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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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These prehistoric shell trumpets served as ‘walkie-talkies’ in ancient Spain, and they still work today!
Before smartphones, before writing, even before smoke signals, Neolithic communities in what is now Catalonia, Spain had figured out long-distance communication. Their solution was elegantly simple: ...
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 ...
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