Jeremy Montagu - The Conch Horn

The Conch can claim to be one of humanity's first trumpets or horns, perhaps indeed the first, for one has been found in one of France's caves from the Upper Paleolithic period, dating back some 20,000 years.
This study is a well-illustrated survey of shell trumpets across the world, from Palaeolithic to the present day. It examines their history, species and use in ritual and in day-to-day activities for signalling and other purposes. The book is comprised of 6 chapters and an extensive bibliography. Geographic areas in which conch horns are examined include; Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, India, Asia, South-East Asia, Islands of the Pacific and the Americas. It is surely the most extensive study of shell trumpets ever conducted.