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6,000-year-old walkie-talkie: Scientists revive prehistoric shells used for long-distance communication
Archaeologists in Spain have brought back the voice of the Neolithic by successfully playing ancient shells that had been buried for around 6,000 years. The instruments, made from large marine snail ...
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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: ...
Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction. Shell energy: an introduction / Geoffrey N. Bailey, Karen Hardy, Abdoulaye Camara -- North America. Beyond subsistence: the social and ...
Abstracts in English and French, p. 35. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!514076~!0#focus ...
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