Jun 25 200935,000-Year Old Flute Doesn't Summon Bird
That was a Zelda reference. No need to thank me folks, just doing my job. So scientists have unearthed a 35,000-year old flute in Germany, making it the earliest instrument ever found (not including rocks).
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.
Wait -- but I thought the oldest flute was the one Eve used to play. You know, Adam's. Zing? ZING!
35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever [gizmodo]
Thanks to Julian, who is more of a clarinet kind of guy.
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Reader Comments
1. sobored - June 25, 2009 2:16 PM
first
http://gawdimsobored.mybrute.com
2. PiedPiper - June 25, 2009 2:17 PM
That's pretty amazing
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
3. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 25, 2009 2:17 PM
@1
Firstart and mybrute fag all in one. Die in a fire.
4. alex - June 25, 2009 2:18 PM
nice
5. sobored - June 25, 2009 2:20 PM
@3 lawl I don't always post my brute it's kind of like a sig.
6. Pinkerton - June 25, 2009 2:25 PM
@5: you give me hope that all these mybrute people aren't idiots.
7. fffffffffffffffff - June 25, 2009 2:26 PM
adams flute is only 6000 years old dummy
8. PhilRules - June 25, 2009 2:26 PM
Of course it doesn't summon a bird. It totally takes you to level 8.
9. Tab - June 25, 2009 2:29 PM
Uhm, that looks a lot smaller than 1 inch in diameter.
10. Gargamel - June 25, 2009 2:38 PM
@9 My thoughts exactly. Unless of course, that guy has the hands of Andre the Giant, or Arsenio Hall.
11. FDSY - June 25, 2009 2:48 PM
Oh pants. That's an old flute.
what genre of music could they possible play?
Blues about getting eaten by a big ass cat.
Rock music about getting eaten by a big ass cat.
Jazz about how dental hasn't been invented yet.
i don't know to good for the histories. I'm not Dr. Grant
12. Faisy - June 25, 2009 3:03 PM
FAKE!!!
This is photoshopped, you can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
This is just like that time in Never BAck Down where Max and his friends find a block of ice while digging in the back yard. They thaw it out looking for a pot of gold but instead they get Brandon Frazier, a caveman from the ice ages, who becomes so popular that Baja plays his bone flute, like, all day long.
13. Moose Knuckle - June 25, 2009 3:04 PM
There seems to be a running theme to some of the posts today...
I'll give you hint: it's fellatio!
14. Ben - June 25, 2009 3:04 PM
FIRST!!!1!
15. KMATH - June 25, 2009 3:06 PM
@3 LOL hahaha
16. blp - June 25, 2009 3:10 PM
@13. So who were the wallabies sucking off?
17. Conrad - June 25, 2009 3:18 PM
LOL, if that's an inch in diameter, then I understand the mindset most men have regarding length.
18. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 25, 2009 3:34 PM
Blow jobs for everybody!
19. catch22 - June 25, 2009 4:10 PM
BUT DOES IT WORK?
20. Jerry - June 25, 2009 4:12 PM
Something that thin will only summon Lindsay Lohan....
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
21. Daisy - June 25, 2009 4:21 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake becauise the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max came home from his job at the pickle pactory, and told Baja that today he had a strong urge to stick his weiner in the pickle slicer. A few days later he came home and told Baja that he gave in to his urges, and stuck his weiner in the pickle slicer. Baja asked what happened, and he said she and I both got fired.
22. Abi - June 25, 2009 9:43 PM
I wonder if it's the Pied Piper's.
23. Hmmmm??? - June 26, 2009 3:13 AM
What are the odds of this just being a random occurence from erosion?
24. MacMasters - June 26, 2009 3:13 AM
either a 1 inch diameter was significantly smaller 35k years ago or that guy has the fattest fingers i've ever seen
25. Graf Zeppelin - June 26, 2009 4:03 AM
hm. I'm thinking someone messed up the difference between diameter and circumference, and know we're all living in a parallell universe where the one is the other, or vice versa. unlike 35.000 years ago when everything was straight and german.
26. shar - June 26, 2009 6:19 AM
@25
I'm thinking they should stop using the Imperial system of measurement, especially if they can't use it properly...
For a country that was so anxious to get rid of the Brits, they sure are clinging to that last vestige of Imperial rule...
Hahaha.. Rule...
27. dubba - June 26, 2009 7:42 AM
i think they meant circumfrence and not diameter
28. Ciao - June 26, 2009 7:48 AM
musical neanderthals, just the best thing ever...
who knows, they may even group together in their little caveman band.
29. Watch-303 - June 26, 2009 12:15 PM
awesome
30. Theodore III - June 27, 2009 6:01 PM
LIES!! Everyone except the sinners know God created the world 6,000 years ago
31. led screen - June 28, 2009 11:39 AM
wow ...
32. Darth - June 29, 2009 2:14 AM
Is music even that old?