Ancient conch shell horn blown for the first time in 18,000 years ... It appears the Late Stone Age humans were finger painting, using their fingerprints to form elaborate art on the cave walls.

Early excavations unearthed two chambers of artifacts, which contained knives, scrapers, pendants made from animal bones, and a Charonia lampas shell — the conch shell. It was discovered in 1931 and ...

Only in 2016 did researchers begin to analyze the shell anew. Artifacts like this conch help paint a picture of how cave dwellers lived, said Carole Fritz, an archaeologist at the University of ...

A horn made from a conch shell over 17,000 years ago has blasted out musical notes for the first time in millennia. Archaeologists originally found the seashell in 1931, in a French cave that ...

An ancient conch shell that was usual as a musical instrument has been played for the first time in 17,000 years. ... An artists drawing of how the shell might have been used.

A recording of an approximately 18,000-year-old conch shell that was made into a horn demonstrates the sounds it could have made. The tones are close to the musical notes C, D and C sharp. Ancient ...