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2. Not Clear Whether This Beats the Divje Babe Flute

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 12:56 PM

May 2012

But the evidence is pushing music back further and further into the past.

It used to be thought that the Greeks invented the seven-tone scale. Then Egyptian instruments were recreated and shown to play the same major and minor scales we use today. Now, amazingly enough, what appear to be flutes have been found among Neanderthal remains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute

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