I have to say that I'm far more than sceptical about the whole thing as it
stands. For one, the musical scale played on the reconstruction is simply
today's pentatonic scale. A society of early humans 35000 years ago simply could
not have had a formal musical structure as advanced as that. The European
contacts with other societies from the Age of Discovery turned up countless
cultures that had their music at a far less advanced level, and that's just a
few hundred years ago. Normally only the great ancient cultures, like China,
India and the like had anything of more advanced level.
If you look at the fingerholes, you'll notice that they are far more carefully
made than even the vast majority of Mediaeval bone flutes' fingerholes. Now I'd
need a hell of a lot of convincing that 35000 years ago they could work bone far
more precisely than 350 years ago.
Thing is that the bone might very well be 35000 years old, but it doesn't
necessarily follow that the workmanship is that as well. I wonder if radiocarbon
dating has been carried out on the bone in the first place.
And as a last shot, it's flute all rigt, (barring the very real possibility that
it's a reedpipe) but not really a one-handed one...