Now I don’t know what to think about these ancient humans. Playing the flute 35,000 years ago — cool.
But another article said that 30,000 years ago they were eating Neanderthals — not cool.
Yep! For some reason those that left Africa knew something.
Cool!
That’s nothing, according to an African Studies professor, archaeologists have discovered a treasure trove of musical and scientific instruments in the Congo that are at least 40,000 years old. Included in the find are several unplayable CDs that are said to contain rap music, 2 rusted Tec 9’s and and a barely readable manuscript that appears to contain images of gang signals.
Why do these types of articles always make some completely unprovable ascertions on the social ramifacations of a find like a flute ?
Yeah, it’s a very interesting find but it’s a flute
Really isn’t that surprising they made them
Show me the first underwater city made by dolphins and I’d.be mighty impressed
Mark for later
In Europe, cave art:
Somewhere else, ptetroglyphs:
"...helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans relative to culturally more conservative and demographically more isolated Neanderthal populations."
Ah yes, those socially conservative neanderthals.
BTW, the article somehow misses the most interesting question -- which is, which musical tones do the flutes make? I wonder if they correspond with the diatonic or pentatonic tones of modern music.
But ... but ... but ... I thought Cain invented instrumental music?!!???
The Bible says so!
German flute playing cavemen PING!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=flute
Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
Associated Press | Jun 24, 2009 | Patrick McGroarty
Posted on 06/24/2009 12:40:02 PM PDT by decimon
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