Above is a photograph scanned from the September 1997 National Geographic magazine. Archaeologists found this bone flute in a cave called Divje Babe, located in Slovenia. It is the oldest known musical instrument, which was fashioned from the leg of a cave bear. It was determined through a technique called electron spin resonance that the flute is more than 40,000 years old.
This particular find proves quite intriguing, since the only known instruments came from the Cro-Magnon man, who were more anatomically modern humans that existed no more than 25,000 to 35,000 years ago.
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