This is fun: "Ice-age musicians fashioned ivory flute"

[annathepiper]

One of the world's oldest known musical instruments has been discovered by German archaeologists. The 18.7-centimetre-long flute, which is carved from mammoth ivory, has three finger holes and would have been capable of playing relatively complex melodies.

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041213/full/041213-14.html

Comments

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

That is SO cool. Thanks for the link!

[annathepiper]

You're quite welcome! I think it's really cool, especially, that the one guy is trying to reconstruct the instrument. :D

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That is SO cool!

[annathepiper]

Ain't it just? I am very charmed to hear that instruments of that sort were around that long ago. :D

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Hm... providence that this was discovered in the area that my family (on my father's side) is from in Germany.

[annathepiper]

Cool!