A conch shell ... of the shell were also present in Marsoulas Cave. It appears the Late Stone Age humans were finger painting, using their fingerprints to form elaborate art on the cave walls.

They have coaxed almost-perfect musical notes from a 17,000-year-old conch shell, revealing a stunning link between prehistoric music and art, stated BBC. The ancient wind instrument, discovered ...

That would make it the earliest known conch shell horn. Gilles Tosello at the University of Toulouse in France and his colleagues were investigating objects and cave art found in Marsoulas cave in ...

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 foghorn from the ...

Some 18,000 years ago, in a cave in what we now call France, a human being left behind something precious: a conch shell. It was not ... music is a very symbolic art for people,” Fritz adds.

While it’s not known how ancient people used the shell horn, conch shells in historical and modern cultures have served as musical instruments, calling or signaling devices and sacred or magical ...

A finely decorated choker necklace made from a conch shell has been discovered by staff ... a $9.8bn, 1,500km rail line that will connect major Mayan archaeological sites on the Yucatán Peninsula ...