[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 9/12/2005, update and a reping.

In 1995, archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a unique perforated bone in the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia. The artefact was found in the middle of a palaeolithic layer of earth, near the remains of a Neanderthal fire place, stone and bone tools.

Extensive experimental research confirmed that the holes in the bone were hand-made and that the bone was likely a neanderthal flute, between 50,000 to 60,000 years old. This makes it the world’s oldest musical instrument and an object that could re-write our assumptions about the fundamental humanity of our Neanderthal cousins.

The 60,000-year-old artefact rewriting Neanderthal history | July 4, 2022 | BBC Reel

• Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known [06/24/2009]
• Ancient flutes more than 35,000 years old - world's oldest instrument [06/24/2009]
• Earliest music instruments found (42,000 year-old flutes) [05/25/2012]
• Professor Blows New Life Into Ancient Flute (China - 8,000 years old) [04/26/2004]

[ComputerGuy]

Pan pipes used by ancient western South Americans used the same scale as those made by south sea Pacific islanders.

[Red Badger]

There is complex mathematics involved in the making of flutes.

The Neanderthals were way more intelligent than we give them credit for................

[Rebelbase]

HA! I didn’t fall for your indexing scheme of a 17 year old article this time.