35,000 years before iPods.

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About 35,000 years ago, music fitted a cave in southwestern Germany when one of our Stone Age ancestors took a hollow bone from a griffon vulture, carved finger holes, and made one of the first flutes. Part of that flute was recently found in a cave near Ulm, Germany. Along with fragments of ivory flutes from the same area, archaeologists say, it represents the earliest known evidence of music-making in the Stone Age. Around the same time and in the same...