[onedoug]

“Music hath charms....”

[ASA Vet]

Doc, What do you think?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

42,000 years old? My girlfriend probably remembers them being made...

"Yes I remember the flutes!"

[PGR88]

[moovova]

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> Earliest music instruments found (42,000 year-old flutes)

However, music exists much longer than that.

That is because researchers can not find the evidence of ‘armpit music’s existence’.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I wonder if they were used for music - as the article states - or if they were used in hunting where you could see them being immensely beneficial.

That’s actually an interesting question, now that I think about it. Did music evolve from leisure to battle, or from battle to leisure?

I could see it going either way.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Fascinating! Especially the part where the paleoentologists and archeologists conjecture that music provided the long term advantage the Cro-Magnons had over the Neandrethals. Sounds like this study was sponsored by your local symphony orchestra!

I especially found this statement amusing:

Music could have played a role in the maintenance of larger social networks, which may have helped our species expand their territory at the expense of the more conservative Neanderthals.

This sounds like something Public Radio would put out.

[Oztrich Boy]

Before they were iconic

[blueunicorn6]

Wow......what was the guy’s name who played this - “Og G”?

[roostercashews]

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50513_213854954949_6579_n.jpg This one time, at band camp...

[Manic_Episode]

[Renfield]

Ping

[Pharmboy]

Classical music ping...or paleoclassical anyway. Thought you might be interested in this one.

[Dysart]

So the sounds of birds seem to fill the wood
and when the flutist plays [and]
All their voices can be heard
long past their woodland days?