![]() ![]() Presenting The Sound of the Sea, Cynthia Barnett will introduce the long, rich, and surprisingly profound relationship between humans and seashells. ![]() In the 1950s, the nation burned with shell-collecting fever only a Florida vacation could cure. Native Floridians built “great cities of shell” along the coasts, later carted off for road fill. ![]() Archaeological evidence suggests that Neanderthals collected cockle shells on the coast of what is modern Spain, perhaps giving preference to those they found beautiful. The human fascination with seashells is primal. ![]()
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