ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by primitive men. They drilled holes in the skeletal remains, and there was music. From ...

In a scientist’s hands, even a blowtorch or a 50,000-year-old cave bear bone can make beautiful music – and teach people a thing or two at the same time. Let’s take a musical tour, from prehistory to ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests. Laurent Davin, an archaeologist at the French Research Center in Jerusalem, playing ...

When assembled, the vulture-bone flute is about eight and a half inches long (21.8 centimeters long) and boasts five finger holes. There are fine lines cut into the bone around the holes, suggesting ...

When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

One of the featured artifacts, which traces the history of music in Iran back nearly 8,000 years, is a bone flute discovered during archaeological excavations at the Sang-e Chakhmaq mounds near ...

This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox. Over 12,000 years ago, ...

Around the time humans started dipping their fingers in ochre and telling stories on cave walls, a group of shamans forged flutes from bone and drums from animal skin. Those shamans were, by ...

In her poem “Bone Flute,” the late Los Altos writer Irene Adler reflects on an ancient instrument and the human who crafted it millennia ago. The cover of “Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks.” Courtesy Paloma ...