To All: Or Anyone: HELP!! I was referred to you by Betty Brennan and 2-Guys-Fossils and told you might be able to help me. Dig this: I have been working on figuring out the notes played on a flute found in a Neanderthal cave sire, made from a cave bear femur of a cub. In order to complete my work, I have concluded that the femur would have to reach 37cm in order to be long enough to play the notes in question in tune with the do, re, mi scale. Everything so far points to that conclusion -- PROVIDED the femur could have been long enough. I already know that a 2 year old modern black cub bear could have such a length of femur. The question is whether the segemnt of femur that was found is of a cave bear cub old enough to also have such a length? All I can give you is the diameter of the femur in its narrowest part. That diameter is 2cm. SO HERE IS THE QUESTION: Can a cave bear cub femur that is 2cm wide at its narrowest point possibly be 37cm long originally? If it's any help, the ratio of diametere to length is the same in the Black bear, so I'm told. I don't need exact answers. JUST AN EDUCATED OPINION, as I have no clue at all, being a musicologist. (No musicologists ever have a clue about much of anything, actually). No local zoo here; local library is inadequate to provide answers. Slovenian paleontologist who found bone not answering communications -- presumed ill. YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE. Thanks for your time:--Bob Fink