Prehistoric flutes date to 42,000 years ago

[microrobert]

Prehistoric flutes date to 42,000 years ago

Good news, flute fans. You have prehistoric company -- flutes go back at least 42,000 years, longer ago than previously reported, conclude archaeologists looking at the likely era of the first modern human occupation of Europe.

In an upcoming report in the Journal of Human Evolution, (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-human-evolution/#description) led by carbon dating expert Thomas Higham of the United Kingdom's University of Oxford, experts reanalyzed Stone-Age artifacts from Geißenklösterle cave in southwestern Germany.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/05/prehistoric-flutes-found-from-42000-year-old-cave/1#.T8AE8WvF98E



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[Aces High]

Looks like the pied piper of Hamelin was true after all........:eek:

[Supreme American]

Logically, the oldest of all things should be found in Africa, but they aren't...

[Quorra]

I'm convinced Neanderthals are where we got our intelligence from.

[Aces High]

Logically, the oldest of all things should be found in Africa, but they aren't...

I heard they are digging up bone fragments in Georgia thata pre-date anything found in africa.