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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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Imagine if you were tasked with sorting and separating thousands of tiny fossils, most of them less than a millimeter wide. It would quite a tedious, time-consuming task … which is why scientists have ...
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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: ...
One of the Pockoy Island shell rings, archaeological sites that researchers have been trying to rapidly catalogue in recent years, may be entirely washed into the ocean by fall. That's according to a ...
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