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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 … Continue reading

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BBC News – Living Pigments

Professor Pettigrew and his colleagues studied 80 of these Bradshaw rock artworks – named for the 19th-Century naturalist who first identified them – in 16 locations within Western Australia’s Kimberley region. They concentrated on two of the oldest known styles … Continue reading

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