Blog: Austin Town Hall

Friday Facts: 40,000 Years Ago

So you may have missed the story a couple weeks back about the oldest musical instrument found to date. It is a flute, 40,000 years old found in southern Germany made from mammoth and bird bones. With a discovery like this, there are typically other things learned about our ancestors. This pushes back the first time someone tried to "talk" during a show. Scientists assume there was grunting from a female about how her caveman wouldn't "commit". Cave paintings of performances were [...]