AP Photo/Daniel Maurer Posted on 06/24/2009 12:40:02 PM PDT by decimon
AP Photo/Daniel Maurer
A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.
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Flute and pic player here, too!
Yeah, me too. Not something a lot of guys will admit to, but then, I sure met a lot of good looking young ladies while occupying that coveted First Flute position...
Paleo-Zamfir
Oldest flute.... smallest acid drop.... when are we gonna find the most exaggeratedest headline?
Could have been made by a Neanderthal.
quite.
Neanderthal Flute
Bob Fink | updated March 1998 | Bob Fink
Posted on 09/11/2005 9:12:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1482622/posts
Anthropologists Hail Romania Fossil Find (35K Y.O. Humans)
AP/Yahoo | 3-6-2004 | Alison Mutler
Posted on 03/07/2004 12:49:38 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1092694/posts
Meanwhile I’m sitting in the dark, in 90 degree heat, while an ice cream wagon rolls by, playing a really crappy too-fast electronic-synth version of “The Sting”. :’)
Oldest Musical Instrument's 4 Notes Matches 4 of Do, Re, Mi Scale
Above: 43,ooo-82,ooo-year old Cave Bear femur bone segment with 4 holes. (2 complete holes, and 2 confirmed partial holes, one at each broken end of bone.)
Alright, the flute shown on your link is listed as older than the one on this thread, so these people are lying when they say it is the oldest flute artifact found! Wow, imagine, an Archeologist lying about their find!
Why aren’t you out there getting that ice cream in that 90 degree heat, don’t you want to be like Bozo?
Pretty much any MSM eulogy of Obama policies are pretty much the only contenders.
"An ancient bone flute segment, estimated at about 43,ooo up to 82,ooo years old, was found recently at a Neanderthal campsite by Dr. Ivan Turk, a paleontologist at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences in Ljubljana. It's the first flute ever to be associated with Neanderthals and its confirmed age makes it the oldest known musical instrument."
The do-re-mi flute (shown in the graphic posted above, thanks Fred Nerks) isn’t accepted as a flute by all, or most, and I’m not too sure it’s even accepted as an artifact by some. :’)
Did it have Helen Thomas’ name on it?
It’s an ongoing argument here...
CHEWED OR CHIPPED?
Who Made the Neanderthal Flute?
HUMANS OR CARNIVORES?
By Bob Fink
Updated Nov., 2008
http://www.greenwych.ca/chewchip.htm
Still, it makes a noise. Either way my statement about archeologist lying about their finds still holds, one or the other of these people lied about their flute and how old it was!
Pied Piper ping
Lol!
Yiu can bet they’ll figure out a way to make a superlative out of “most baddest ass”!
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