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A shell trumpet made of the conch species Charonia lampas dating back 10,000 to 17,000 years ago to the Magdalenian stage of the Upper Paleolithic. The specimen is 31 × 18 × 18 cm in size and cataloged by the Muséum of Toulouse as MHNT.PRE.2010.0.1.2. It was discovered in 1931 during field work undertaken by Henri Begouen of the University of Toulouse and J. Townsend Russell of the Smithsonian Institution in the Marsoulas cave of Marsoulas, Haute-Garonne, France. Photo credit: Didier Descouens