Professor Nicholas Conard of the University in Tuebingen shows a flute
during a press conference in Tuebingen, southern Germany, on
Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The thin bird-bone flute carved some 35,000
years ago and unearthed in a German cave is the oldest handcrafted
musical instrument yet discovered, archeologists say, and offers the
latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a
complex and creative culture. A team led by Conard assembled the flute
from 12 pieces of griffon vulture bone scattered in a small plot of
the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)

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