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  • Stone Age bone flute discovered in southern Germany | Culture &Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 24.06.2009

    "Stone Age bone flute discovered in southern Germany Archeologists in Germany have uncovered what they think is a 35,000-year-old bone flute, making it the oldest known instrument in the world." Details on the page. It certainly puts a new twist on the Stone Age! We've not... more

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  • Rated by arunaftermath on Jul 10, 7:18am

    difficult to believe.

  • Rated by namoottat on Jun 30, 1:37pm

    i love this stuff but i still dont think ( just my oppinoin) that they can tell how old this stuff is !!!

  • Rated by Lolaone on Jun 28, 10:02am

    The find proves that Stone Age humans had a highly developed musical culture, wrote Nicholas Conard, an archeologist from the University of Tuebingen in the British journal "Nature." Largely intact, the flute had been constructed from the hollow wing bone of a giant vulture using stone tools, according to the study. Nearly 22 centimeters long (8.7 inches), the instrument roughly resembles its modern equivalent. Five holes were carved into it to alter the pitch. Fragments of three ivory flutes were uncovered at the same site, in the Ach Valley in southern Germany, along with other instruments that are not quite so old. Previously, a carved figurine from the same period had been discovered just a few steps from the cave where the instruments were found, suggesting that culture was important to the people who lived in the region during the Upper Palaeolithic period (approximately 40,000-10,000 years ago). The bone and ivory flutes were dated using radiocarbon dating techniques; they are some 5,000 years older than the previously oldest known instruments. ~Knowing that they enjoyed music gives one a different concept of their lives 35,000 years in our past.

  • Rated by Beadmonger on Jun 26, 8:20pm

    How COOL is this!!

  • Rated by danbaltzell on Jun 26, 7:25am

    Flute of bone 35k yr old, awesome.