From Discover:
Holes in a Bone: Flute or Fluke?
Many experts believe an approximately 45,000-year-old bear femur could be a flute — the oldest known musical instrument. Ivan Turk discovered the bone in 1995 in Slovenia’s Divje Babe Archaeological Park, among cave deposits containing Neanderthal tools. But is it a hominin-made flute, or just a bone scavenged by ancient hyenas? In Science Smackdown, we let experts argue both sides of the question. More.
Readers? Hear a replica played below.
See also: The search for our earliest ancestors: signals in the noise
and
Neanderthal Man: The long-lost relative turns up again, this time with documents
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