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One of my other passions in life is doing research. As I mentioned in my biography, one of my passions is working within the addiction field. I absolutely love doing research in the latest findings within the area of what causes addiction. Be it physiological, neurological, psycholgoical, genetics, etc. Simply put, I love going to the library and educating myself on what ever it is that intrigues me. So, here we are with my pursuing my passion in conducting research on the Native American Flute. Above is a photograph scanned from the September 1997 National Geographic. Archaeologists found this bone flute in a cave called Divje Babe, located in Slovenia. It is the oldest known musical instrument, which was fashioned from the leg of a cave bear. It was determined through a technique called electron spin resonance that the flute is more than 40,000 years old. This particular find proves quite intriguing, since the only known instruments came from the Cro-Magnon man, who were more anatomically modern humans that existed no more than 25,000 to 35,000 years ago. This find was able to indicate that the Neandrethal man, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, were able to create musical instruments. Not just the Cro-Magnon, Home sapiens sapiens, "doubly wise". It was thought that the Neandrethal man did not have the ability to makes such instruments. Which brings us to our next bone flute, just below.
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This flute was found in France, and dates back to 30,000 years ago. I found this photograph in the November 10, 1986 edition of Newsweek. These archaeological finds are certainly fascinating stuff, aren't they? At least they are for me....I get into such heavy contemplation about what was it that made these individuals sit there and think to themselves, or say out loud; "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I cut a few holes in this bone here and blew through one end of it. Hmmmmm?" And so the flute was born. As time goes on, and I start utilizing the resources I have at hand, I will be adding more items here pertaining more directly to the Native American Flute. During my time at the Renaissance of the Native American Flute, Ken Light told us an absolutely fabulous story about the Anazazi flute that he was able to look at in the archives of the Arizona Museum. So, I want look into that area of history and other areas on the NAF. Hope to see you back here soon! And if I don't update this page often enough, email me and get on my case. I might be off on a different topic in my research and will need to be steered back onto Native American Flutes!
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