Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Prehistoric music


Archaeologists at Tübingen University unveil a 35,000-year-old flute made of bird bone, the oldest instrument yet found in Europe, from a site near Ulm in southwestern Germany. John Noble Wilford reports in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute.html?hp