The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone, but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known. Found in the ...

Figure 2: Fragments of ivory flutes from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd. The find density in archaeological horizon Vb is moderately high, with much flint-knapping debris, worked bone and ivory, bones of ...