Researcher Laurent Davin plays a replica of one of the 12,000-year-old bird bone flutes recently discovered in northern Israel. Davin et al., 2023 Scientists in Israel have discovered seven 12,000 ...

Hamoudi Khalaily of the Israel Antiquities Authority, who collaborated on the bird flute study, has said that if the Natufians used the aerophones to flush birds out of the marshes, the discovery ...

Archaeologists are hearing for the first time how humans made music some 12,000 years ago, by recreating a flute that was likely used to hunt ducks and other small birds in northern Israel.

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 12,000-year-old flutes carved out of bird bones at a prehistoric site in Israel. When played, the artifacts mimic the calls of certain birds of prey.

The sixth outbreak of bird flu this winter is identified at a turkey farm on Moshav Kfar Vitkin, near Netanya, in central Israel. The Agriculture Ministry says it will cull some 19,000 12-week-old ...

Picture: Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority Were the Natufians the first example of master instrument makers? While the flutes, pictured above, produce a sound similar to prehistoric birds of ...