#neolithic

#neolithic

As a child, Miquel Lopez Garcia was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father's family in the southern Spanish region of Almeria had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters. The hours he spent getting that characteristically potent sound out of it paid off last year when the archaeologist, musicologist and professional trumpet player pressed his lips to eight conch-shell trumpets.

Cannibalism was likely the result of a violent episode between competing Late Neolithic herding communities about 5,700 years ago.