![The world's oldest musical instrument (43,000 BC), a Neanderthal's flute carved from a bear femur : r/interestingasfuck The world's oldest musical instrument (43,000 BC), a Neanderthal's flute carved from a bear femur : r/interestingasfuck](https://external-preview.redd.it/WQij42ypKxZaabTxOo_98PZIR80VIb442skHabRKLe0.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3c528479a5f6854b30b2316572e0412cb4945e0e)
The world's oldest musical instrument (43,000 BC), a Neanderthal's flute carved from a bear femur : r/interestingasfuck
![One of the 9000-year-old Jiahu bone flutes, made from the wings of the red-crowned crane. Excavated in 1986 from an early Neolithic tomb in Jiahu, they are the oldest known musical instruments One of the 9000-year-old Jiahu bone flutes, made from the wings of the red-crowned crane. Excavated in 1986 from an early Neolithic tomb in Jiahu, they are the oldest known musical instruments](https://preview.redd.it/erycv8fqjaw61.jpg?auto=webp&s=1ff91e6732ecaea60bb8007b367f5c32d66f9307)
One of the 9000-year-old Jiahu bone flutes, made from the wings of the red-crowned crane. Excavated in 1986 from an early Neolithic tomb in Jiahu, they are the oldest known musical instruments
![12,000-year-old flutes carved of bone are some of the oldest in the world and sound like birds of prey | Live Science 12,000-year-old flutes carved of bone are some of the oldest in the world and sound like birds of prey | Live Science](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jBx5xapUEVyz62teucJ76X.jpg)