The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds. Researchers in Java, Indonesia, ...

Sitting in front of a cutting wheel in his studio full of seashells, artisan Jin A'shan takes a few pieces, fashions them into different shapes and quickly polishes them. Within minutes, ordinary ...

HAIKOU, February 14. /TASS/. China's Hainan strives to popularize the artistic carving of sea shells and products made from them, reported the Haikouwan portal. According to him, in recent years, the ...

On a prehistoric white shell fossil from the island of Java, tiny zig-zag shaped scratches may etch out the beginning of art history, and rewrite our human history. A study published in Nature this ...

The mussel shell found in Indonesia scratched with a zigzag believed made by Homo erectus, which would make it the oldest art (all photos courtesy Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam) The ...

A fine shell carving artwork on the theme of dragon is on display at a shell carving art museum in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, August 19, 2021. (Photo: China News Service/Wang gang) ...

Shell artist Jin A'shan works on his peacock shell painting at his studio in Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sitting in front of a ...