Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

Earliest known conch shell horn plays its tune for the first time in 17,000 years First record of the sound produced by the oldest Upper Paleolithic seashell horn Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

The sound of the Marsoulas conch hasn't been heard for 18,000 years. Gilles Tosello, Carole Fritz et al. 2021 ...

Listen below (audio credit: Soundcloud/SmithsonianMag). Hear the oldest known conch shell horn from 18,000 years ago - Marsoulas conch Fortunately, the shell coped well, producing close to the notes ...

An 18,000-year-old conch shell believed to be the world's oldest instrument of its type was played by a horn player for the first time in thousands of years as part of a study by French scientists.

For the first time in more than 17,000 years, three musical notes have reverberated from an ancient conch shell modified to serve as a wind instrument.

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 contains ...

Several dozen fans of the fluted, pink-lined conch shell displayed their pucker power Saturday during Key West's 58th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest in the Florida Keys.

Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

The shell has also been decorated with a red pigment, characteristic of the Marsoulas Cave, which indicates its status as a symbolic object. To confirm the hypothesis that this conch was used to ...

For the first time in more than 17,000 years, three musical notes have reverberated from an ancient conch shell modified to serve as a wind instrument. Archaeologists say the specimen is the ...