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posted 30 December 2004 06:54 PM

CBC story about a mammoth-bone flute more than 30,000 years old that was found in Germany.

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...It places the instrument's makers in the Upper Paleolithic era of the last ice age, when the last Neanderthals and the first modern humans lived in Europe...
...it proved "music played an important role in the lives of our ancestors in the European Ice Age."
The team, led by Prof.Nicholas Conard, also said their find was technically much more sophisticated than the two other pre-historic flutes made from swan bones.
A player would have been capable of playing relatively complex melodies on the ivory instrument...

Be sure to check CBC's link to Tuebingen University; the article is in German but it has good pictures.

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remind
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posted 30 December 2004 11:16 PM

Great find in Germany, 37k old flute, they had leisure time apparently.

So much for creationist's world dating at 6k-10k, their theory debunked yet again.

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Jimmy Brogan
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posted 30 December 2004 11:22 PM

Hey sweetie let's head back to my cave and see if we can't pick out a tune on my mammoth-bone flute.

[ 30 December 2004: Message edited by: JimmyBrogan ]

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steffie
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posted 31 December 2004 12:01 AM

Jimmy, your flute - it's so, so.. so small!

Another page with photo

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 31 December 2004 09:22 AM

Muck Music has selected this as the number one ancient Mammoth Ivory flute of 2004.

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Von Mises Pieces
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posted 05 January 2005 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:
Muck Music has selected this as the number one ancient Mammoth Ivory flute of 2004.

However, CanCon regulations demanded that MuchMusic fill 25% of the top 10 Ancient Mammoth Ivory Flutes of 2004 list with domestic product. Hence, the latest remix of Snow's "Informer" featuring Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. He's at least 35 000 years old.

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