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6,000-year-old Neolithic shell trumpets uncovered in Catalonia reveal powerful long-distance sound technology

Researchers studying Neolithic Catalonia have provided new insight into how ancient people used large seashells as powerful sound-making devices, which likely carried messages over long distances and may also have served a musical purpose...

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6,000-year-old Neolithic shell trumpets uncovered in Catalonia reveal powerful long-distance sound technology Researchers studying Neolithic Catalonia have provided new insight into how ancient people used large seashells as powerful sound-making devices, which likely carried messages over long distances and may also have served a musical purpose. The research focuses on Charonia lampas shells found at several sites dating to the late fifth and early fourth millennium BCE and now confirmed to be among the most acoustically potent instruments known from prehistory...

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