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Conch shells may be 6,000-year-old instruments, researchers say

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...
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Call of the conch: Archaeologists suggest Indigenous Americans used sound to organize local communities

Archaeologists have modeled the auditory range of conch-shell trumpets in the 9th–11th century US Southwest, proposing that the sound was key in the structuring of pre-Columbian Pueblo communities. At ...
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The History Of The Conch Festival Of Turks And Caicos

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conch Shell Turks and Caicos turned their love of conch into an annual event. In 2004, the first Conch Festival took place in Blue ...
Newsweek

Blowing Conch Shell Linked to Improvement in Dangerous Sleep Condition

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The ancient practice of blowing through a conch shell could help to ...
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Ancient shells — found in American West — may have been used as trumpets, study says

Conch shells, found buried at ancient Pueblo sites in New Mexico, were likely used as communication devices across the arid landscape. James Wainscoat via Unsplash If you were standing on the edge of ...