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The earliest musical tradition

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Music is a ubiquitous element in our daily lives, and was probably just as important to our early ancestors. Fragments of ancient flutes reveal that music was well established in Europe by about 40,000 years ago.

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Figure 1: Sounds old.

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  1. Daniel S. Adler is in the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA. daniel.adler@uconn.edu,

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