Brownian Motion Posted December 11, 2004 Report Posted December 11, 2004 Ice-Age Ivory Flute Found in German Cave Fri Dec 10, 1:02 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tuebingen said on Friday. The flute, one of the oldest musical instruments discovered, was pieced together from 31 fragments found in a cave in the Swabian mountains in southwestern Germany, the university said. The mountains have yielded rich pickings in recent years, including ivory figurines, ornaments and other musical instruments. Archaeologists believe humans camped in the area in winter and spring. Mammoths, now extinct, were large elephant-like creatures with hairy coats and long, upcurved tusks. They lived during the Pleistocene period from 2 million to 11,000 years ago. The university said it planned to put the instrument on display in a museum in Stuttgart. Quote
JSngry Posted December 11, 2004 Report Posted December 11, 2004 Didn't Paul Horn record an album in that cave? Quote
DTMX Posted December 12, 2004 Report Posted December 12, 2004 Didn't Yusef Lateef play Ice-Age mammoth ivory flute on Eastern Sounds? Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted December 12, 2004 Report Posted December 12, 2004 (edited) If they look close by they might find the skeleton of an Ice Age man standing on one leg! (there's a challenge for the computer graphics masters at Organissimo). Edited December 12, 2004 by Bev Stapleton Quote
DTMX Posted December 12, 2004 Report Posted December 12, 2004 Too old to rock and roll, too young to evolve... Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted December 12, 2004 Report Posted December 12, 2004 Just add to... ...and stir... Quote
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