Longtime member and mentor Andy Rindsberg, not currently susbscribed due
to some overwhelming commitments, sends along the following tidbit for
your enjoyment.

Thanks, Andy!

Lynn Scheu
Louisville, KY

THEY DIG THIS MUSIC: At a summer concert in Lima, Peru, John Rick, chair
of
anthropological sciences, and a large audience were serenaded with the
sounds of 12 Strombus trumpets, instruments made from large sea-snail
shells. But these weren't just any shells. The nearly 3,000-year-old
artifacts that Rick and his team unearthed reinforce archaeologists'
hypotheses about ancient rituals in a Peruvian cultural center.
http://www.stanford.edu/news/report/news/october24/chavin-a.html