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A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE - Amazing Today43

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A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE - Amazing Today43

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The oldest playable instruments are red-crowned crane-bone flutes from China’s Neolithic Age and in Tibet thigh-bone trumpets (rkangling) and skull drums

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In all ways, except physical, that’s metal as hell

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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