The type of beads used in Chumash necklaces may also have been currency PEOPLE living in what is now California may have been the first Americans to invent money, according to a new analysis of ...

Dr. Fauvelle's Trade Money Theory posits that money emerged as a practical innovation motivated by the necessity to trade with strangers in long-distance exchange networks.

Shells aren't just pretty. They have played a role in human history. Award-winning author Cynthia Barnett is coming to the Bay County Public Library to spread the word.

Tropical cyclones (TCs) rank among the most destructive weather phenomena, often bringing intense winds, heavy rainfall, and ...

A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the ...

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years. But an exhaustive ...

Ancient conch shell horn blown for the first time in 18,000 years The Marsoulas conch hasn't been heard since the late Stone Age.

Shell expects quarterly earnings to be hit by weaker trading in its integrated gas division and losses at its chemicals and ...

Ancient shell horn can still play a tune after 18,000 years The shell was found during the 1931 excavation of a cave with prehistoric wall paintings in the French Pyrenees and assumed to be a ...

WASHINGTON — A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought to be the oldest known seashell instrument — and it still works, producing a deep, plaintive bleat, like a ...