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Published online 17 December 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041213-14
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Ice-age musicians fashioned ivory flute
A 30,000-year-old instrument is uncovered in southern Germany.
One of the world's oldest known musical instruments has been discovered by German archaeologists. The 18.7-centimetre-long flute, which is carved from mammoth ivory, has three finger holes and would have been capable of playing relatively complex melodies.
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