Dates BCE |
41,100 Divje Babe Artifact |
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41,000–40,000
Hohle Fels Griffon Vulture Flute |
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35,000–31,000 Ulm Whooper Swan Flute |
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35,000–28,000 Ulm Mammoth Ivory Flute |
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33,000–18,000 Isturitz Flutes |
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circa 30,000 Dordogne Bone Flutes |
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5720–5620 Jiahu Gudi |
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5720–5440
L'Anse Amour Flute |
8000 – 1200
Archaic Era |
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7000–4000
East-Texas Flute |
3200–3050 Two Dog Pallete |
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2700–2500 Cycladic Flute Player |
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2500 Early Sumerian Flutes |
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2170 Caral Flutes |
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2167 Wicklow Pipes |
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1446?–300? Early Talmudic/Biblical Texts |
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1200 BCE – 50 CE
Early Basketmaker II Era |
899–800 Book of Songs |
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756–203
Mammoth Cave Reed Flute
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433 Chinese Di Lacquered Transverse Flute |
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300–150
Pre-Pottery Phase Tularosa Cave Flutes
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Dates Spanning BCE–CE |
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396 BCE – 53 CE
Kin-Boko Reed Flutes |
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300 BCE – 250 CE
Colima Culture Flutes |
150 BCE – 500 CE
Pine Lawn Phase
Tularosa Cave Flute
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Dates CE |
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200–300
Talus Village Bone Flute |
50–500 CE
Late Basketmaker II Era |
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200–600
Nasca Flute |
200–500
Hopewell Tradition Panpipes |
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470–489
Obelisk Cave Reed Flutes |
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500–700
Georgetown Phase
Tularosa Cave Flute
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500–750 CE
Basketmaker III Era |
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400–700
Multiple Flutes |
500–750 (Est.)
Gypsum Cave Flutes
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600–900
Dresden_Codex
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600–800
Bear Ruin Bone Whistles
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620–670
Broken Flute Cave Flutes |
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700
Jaina Block Flute |
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690–944 Pueblo Bonito Flutes |
750–900
Pueblo I Era |
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750–900 Grand Gulch Flute |
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750–1250 (Est.)
Range Creek Flute |
900–1150
Pueblo II Era |
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1020–1160
Breckenridge Flute |
1000–1400
Medieval Flutes
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1253–1284
Mummy Cave Flutes
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1150–1350
Pueblo III Era
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1100–1350
Middle Mississippi Flutes
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1266–1277
The Nordenskiƶld Spring House Flute
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1246–1286
The Betatakin Flute
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1400–1600
Renaissance Flutes
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1350–1600
Upper Mississippi Flutes
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1350–1600
Pueblo IV Era |
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1375–1475
Poshuouinge Bone Flutes
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1600–1760
Baroque Flutes
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1600–Present
Pueblo V Era |
1760–1820
The Classical Flute
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1810–1877
Boehm Flute Development
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1823
The Beltrami Flutes |
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1825–1826
Hutter Winnebago Flute |
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circa 1830
The Von Roenne Flute |
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1832
George Catlin Pawnee Flute |
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1833–1834
The Màndeh-Pàhchu Flute |
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1845
Nancy Lewis Holding a Flute |