Carolina Chocolate Drops: Saturday night femur

Did prehistoric man have bone-music discos? Alfred Hickling has a lesson in how to play the world's oldest instrumentIn ancient times, lepers were made to rattle bones to warn of their approach. In Egypt, hieroglyphics have been discovered showing women banging bones together to ward off evil spirits. And in what was once Mesopotamia, there are fossils suggesting that bones were used to make a little after-dinner music in prehistoric times, the moment all the meat had been eaten off them.Bones,...

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