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35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found
Omomyid writes "The AFP is reporting the discovery of a 35,000 year-old flute, made from a vulture wing bone. The context described makes it sound like a musician's shop. There were also fragments of ivory-based flutes and flint tools. Being at least 35KYO this bone flute beats the previous oldest-known musical instrument by at least 5,000 years and puts it very close to the beginning of the Aurignacian culture."
That flute is -29,000 years old!
This one time, 35,000 years ago at band camp...
I bet people have been playing the skin flute for far longer
And if you filmed the discovery of this flute and play it backwards, you see a team of scientist burying a flute for 35,000 years only to have it discovered by some primitive human, who then picks it up and starts playing it....
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Fail.
Pelvis was obliterated due to snu-snu.
to date my bone flute.
*giggity*
How did they know it was a flute? There were carvings on the wall from people whining they could ahve done it better/
How did they get two flutes in tune? they bashed the skull in of one of the bone flautists.
Why did the neanderthal go extinct? to get away from the flute recital.
How many bone Flautists did it taker to start a fire? 2 one to do it and another to push them into the fire.
What do you call a flute that's been buried for 35000 years? A good start.
2 flutists ride a mammoth over a cliff, what's the tragedy? you can fit 4 flutists on a mammoth.
I can go on, but unlike a flautists I know when to stop.
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