Two Late Bronze Age Horns from Co. Antrim ... pendants would contain a loose piece of bronze or stone inside that would rattle when the instruments were shaken. Known as crotals, a Gaelic word ...

This horn isn't the oldest known musical instrument. Some flutes made from ... "In fact, daily life in the Stone Age, or Paleolithic, was accompanied by rhythmic sounds simply made by the ...

A conch shell -- the hardened exoskeleton of a predatory sea snail -- lay empty at the mouth of a cave the men knew was once used by human ancestors in the late Stone Age. But, as exceptional as ...

Archaeologists from the University of Toulouse recently took a fresh look and determined it had been modified thousands of years ago to serve as a wind instrument. They invited a French horn ...

Now, thanks to Billy Ó Foghlú of Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, we can add Bronze Age Irish horns to the list of resurrected instruments. Through 3D printing ...

Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times “What we had was something from the Stone Age,” said J. Kenneth Moore, the curator in charge of musical instruments. “It used to be sort of like a cave.” ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age.