Friday, June 26, 2009

35,000-Year Old Flute Doesn't Summon Bird~


That was a Zelda reference. No need to thank me folks, just doing my job. It was made from the bone of a giant vulture during the Upper Paleolithic. Found in Ach Valley, in the south of Germany, the 8.7-inch long, one-inch diameter instrument has five holes, with two V-shaped notches carved on one side of it. This was the part in which the musician put the lips to blow, according to University of Tubingen's professor Nicholas Conard, the lead author of the discovery. The other end is broken just on the fifth hole~

via : bnl

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