Archaeologists unearth oldest musical instruments ever found – The Boston Globe

We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists?

Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and ivory at least 35,000 years ago.

The find suggests just how integral artistic expession may be to human existence: Music apparently flourished even in prehistoric days when mere survival was a full-time endeavor.

The instruments were found in a cave, amid bones from bears and mammoths and flakes of flint from a Stone Age tool shop.

Archaeologists unearth oldest musical instruments ever found – The Boston Globe.

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