Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Rock of ages: 40,000 year-old musical instruments the world's oldest


Oxford University in the UK has announced that researchers from that school and Germany's University of Tübingen have determined the age on the world's oldest musical instruments: a collection of flutes, made of mammoth ivory and bird bones. Other bones found at the same level of excavation have been radiocarbon dated as 40,000 years old. Read more


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