Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by modern humans - <italic>Homo sapiens</italic>. Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old. The findin
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