2009/06/27

FLUTES OFFER CLUES TO STONE-AGE MUSIC

At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world.

Music and sculpture — expressions of artistic creativity, it seems — were emerging in tandem among some of the first modern humans when they began spreading through Europe or soon thereafter.

2009 june 25 JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute.html?_r=1&emc=eta1