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Cool: 40,000 year old bone flute May 27th 2012, 01:50 Quote: Bone Flute Means Musical Instruments Date Back 40,000 Years, Scientists Say By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/24/2012 01:46 PM EDT on LiveScience Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone flutes push back the date researchers think human creativity evolved. Researchers were studying a modern human settlement called Geißenklösterle, a part of the Swabian caves system in southern Germany, when they came across the bone flutes. One is made of mammoth ivory, while the other seems to be made of bones from a bird. They also found a collection of perforated teeth, ornaments and stone tools at the site. "These results are consistent with a hypothesis we made several years ago that the Danube River was a key corridor for the movement of humans and technological innovations into central Europe between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago," study researcher Nick Conard, of Tübingen University, said in a statement. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1544417.html

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