For those among you who had
some interest in the Neanderthal flute,
and discussed it in several e-mails
in 1997, the URL in your archives
is out of date. The new URL for the
original essay is:
http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm
A lot has happened since then.
The debate has been on-going, and
a paper by Morley appeared 2006
in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology
[OJA] defending the view that the 4
holes in the bone, lined-up in a diatonic
spacing, with near-equal diameters,
were bitten into existence, one hole at
a time, by random animal chewing.
I am hoping to publish a reply to
Morley's paper in a journal in due
course.
But much more information is
available on this presumed oldest
known musical instrument and the
debate about it, in my website, at:
http://www.greenwych.ca/paypiper.htm
"A reply to d'Errico, Nowell/Chase's
et al critique of Fink." -- Found also
in "Studies in Music Archaeology III,
2003," the published world conference
proceedings (Germany 2002), "The
Archaeology of Sound."
Judging from the massive "visits" to
the page and the steady mail, it remains
one of the more interesting and dramatic
debates in the science world, even for
lay persons and students to follow.
A shorter general overview of the
debate issues has been made in Wiki-
pedia, and is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute
Those interested can feel free continuing
to download, copy, forward, quote or re-
produce material, images and text, from
those webpages & links, as you please.
--Best wishes,
Bob Fink, musicologist, retired
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