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These Are The Oldest Musical Instruments Ever Discovered
io9.com 2 days agoSome of the world's first musicians may have been flautists. Archaeologists reanalyzing artifacts from a cave in southern Germany have determined that two prehistoric flutes , one fashioned from bird bone, the other mammoth ivory , are somewhere between 42,000 and 43,000 years old. If the researchers are right, these primitive instruments predate the previous record holder (also a flute) by thousands of years. More »
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Earliest Music Instruments Found - BBC News
google.com 2 days, 7 hours agoBBC News Earliest music instruments found BBC News Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by ... Caveman Flutists? First Instruments Date Back 40000 Years Flutes go back forty-thousand years? Were the Cavemen of the Danube Flutists?

















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