“If the [aerophones] were used for hunting, then this is the earliest evidence of the use of #sound in hunting,” said Hamudi Khalaily, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority

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Ancient Bird Bones May Have Been Fashioned Into Flutes for Catching More Birds

A team of archaeologists posit a unique theory about 12,000-year-old bird bones from the Levant, which appear to have been crafted into flutes.

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