This month, we tackle:
Earliest known conch shell horn plays its tune for the first time in 17,000 years (EurekAlert)
First record of the sound produced by the oldest Upper Paleolithic seashell horn (Science! Advances)
Nehandertals' [sic] gut microbiota and the bacteria helping our health (EurekAlert)
Chumash Indians Were Using Shell Bead Money 2,000 Years Ago (Sci News)
The aroma of distant worlds: New evidence that spices, fruits from Asia had reached the Mediterranean earlier than thought (Science Daily)
Archaeologists Identify Famed Fort Where Indigenous Tlingits Fought Russian Forces (Smithsonian)
A glimpse into the wardrobe of King David and King Solomon, 3000 years ago (EurekAlert)
Ancient Amazonian farmers fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it (EurekAlert)
An Egyptian mummy wears an unprecedented suit of mud (Nature)
The Dutch Adopt Repatriation Plan (Art News)