Dear members of the list:
        The following short article by Marcel Otte from the recent on-line
issue of "Current Anthropology" relates further to the issue of whether
the Neanderthal bone is a flute (and the world's oldest flute) and not a
product of chance.
        Otte is the director of Le Musée du Service de Préhistoire et Centre de
Recherche Archéologique of the University of Liège, Belgium.
        Otte makes a brief case for the flute being indeed a flute, and
explains his feeling that what he calls a "nearsighted" resistance to
this idea lies in a traditional and outdated bias that Neanderthals were
not capable of fashioning a flute.
        Below the journal's URL is another URL which offers a statistical
analysis of how likely it is that the bone could have arisen purely as a
matter of chance.
        Please excuse any repititions or cross-posting.
Greenwich Publ.

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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/journal/issues/v41n2/002701/002701.html

http://www.webster.sk.ca/GREENWICH/FL3DEBAT.HTM#What

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