Post by jonsdigs on Jun 24, 2009 16:47:01 GMT -5
Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
June 24, 2009
Nicholas J. Conard of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, showed
a thin bird-bone flute carved some 35,000 years ago. (Photo: Daniel Maurer/Associated Press)
At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world.
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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
June 24, 2009
Nicholas J. Conard of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, showed
a thin bird-bone flute carved some 35,000 years ago. (Photo: Daniel Maurer/Associated Press)
At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world.
Full Story