Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Reconstruction of a seashell being played as an instrument. In ...
Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...
The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...