This horn isn't the oldest known musical instrument. Some flutes made from ... "In fact, daily life in the Stone Age, or Paleolithic, was accompanied by rhythmic sounds simply made by the ...

Two Late Bronze Age Horns from Co. Antrim ... pendants would contain a loose piece of bronze or stone inside that would rattle when the instruments were shaken. Known as crotals, a Gaelic word ...

A conch shell -- the hardened exoskeleton of a predatory sea snail -- lay empty at the mouth of a cave the men knew was once used by human ancestors in the late Stone Age. But, as exceptional as ...

A vulture-bone flute discovered in a European cave is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument and pushes ... in 2008 at Hohle Fels, a Stone Age cave in southern Germany ...

The new study focuses on two of the incisors, which contain marks that suggest a pointed instrument ... of dental interventions among late [Stone Age] foragers in Italy,” he tells Bower.

Researchers working at two Stone Age German sites have unearthed a nearly ... These 35,000- to 40,000-year-old finds are the oldest known musical instruments in the world, says archaeologist ...

Archaeologists from the University of Toulouse recently took a fresh look and determined it had been modified thousands of years ago to serve as a wind instrument. They invited a French horn ...

Rockers Queens of the Stone Age are canceling the rest of their 2024 ... "As you know, Steven’s voice is an instrument like no other. He has spent months tirelessly working on getting his ...

Now, thanks to Billy Ó Foghlú of Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, we can add Bronze Age Irish horns to the list of resurrected instruments. Through 3D printing ...

They look very much like fragments from European woodwind instruments used today, complete with neatly punched finger holes. In South Africa, archaeologists have discovered a number of bone tubes at ...

A juvenile male capuchin uses a hammerstone to crack open an almond placed on a stone anvil (Picture: Brendan J Barrett et al) A species of apes has entered its own Stone Age period and is using ...