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: ...

Twelve large conch shells found in Spain may have been used as trumpet-like instruments, according to new research. Two archaeologists from the University of Barcelona, Miquel López-García and ...

Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...