Post APhb8e1ufBlcUZEnLc by AndyLowry@qoto.org
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 (DIR) Post #APhXmXsEZTslALTt0y by freemo@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:16:20Z
       
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       Interesting fact of the day: The first archaeological evidence of instruments, a flute, was **not** made by humans, in fact, it was made by a neanderthal and is 60,000 years old.#history #archaeology #music
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZ4uQXYbXcHRqdA8 by trinsec@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:30:42Z
       
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       @freemo Considering that the majority of humanity have like 2% Neanderthal-DNA (I think I've read that somewhere), we can make the claim anyway! Ha!
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZAb30WTSnugYJzU by freemo@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:31:52Z
       
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       @trinsec That doesnt mean we are neanderthals... it only implies we have common ancestry.
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZV0rQGAQplMrwhM by trinsec@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:35:35Z
       
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       @freemo Tell that the parent organization of our school. They took over our school that's existed for over 2 centuries now. Now that org, which is probably at most a few decades old, makes the claim that they've existed 'for 200 years!'... 🤨 So I'll just follow suit. Us humans invented the damn flute, and that's that! *Stomps on floor*
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZY163q2evMd9GL2 by freemo@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:36:06Z
       
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       @trinsec lol typical
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZpVK2iJwA1u1jd2 by Pat@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:39:15Z
       
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       @freemo My guess is that the first musical instrument was a hollow log or some such (drum). But probably difficult to determine if one was used to make music. If you count woodpeckers, it goes way back!@trinsec
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZyHbZ5HBk5mPPSy by JensHannemann@mastodon.online
       2022-11-17T17:40:51Z
       
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       @freemo Supplemental semi-interesting fact of the day: the Neandertal is a valley of the river Düssel near Düsseldorf. The "h" got dropped in the German spelling reform of 1901.#history #archaeology
       
 (DIR) Post #APhZzu4lXFxrhIq8rg by freemo@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:41:09Z
       
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       @Pat It all comes downt o definition... the first musical instrument would be ones voice, after that perhaps a woodpecker or the beating of the tail of a beaver or similar.. I'm sure some human hit two sticks together like a drum at one point too...I think if you really want to define a musical instrument for this context in a meaningful way it would have to be some object that had to be formed to make sounds it couldnt naturally do.@trinsec
       
 (DIR) Post #APhaLDB9hozV1ezOj2 by Pat@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:45:03Z
       
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       @freemo Yeah, some animal would have to make a drum stick or something for it to count.If you count vocalizations, that goes back to the  Jurassic or even earlier..@trinsec
       
 (DIR) Post #APhb8e1ufBlcUZEnLc by AndyLowry@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:53:58Z
       
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       @freemo My mother played flute in a couple of orchestras, so I have no choice but to boost this post. Her dna test showed a couple percent Neandertal origin, too!
       
 (DIR) Post #APhbBedEsi8tEC8ELo by freemo@qoto.org
       2022-11-17T17:54:30Z
       
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       @AndyLowry Her great grandmommy/daddy invented the flute :)