Shattering the belief that the oldest known musician to be David Crosby, the BBC reports that the oldest musical instrument has been found.

“Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago,” BBC news science correspond Pallab Ghosh writes. “The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date.

“The researchers say in the Journal Nature that music was widespread in pre-historic times. Music, they suggest, may have been one of a suite of behaviours displayed by our own species which helped give them an edge over the Neanderthals.”

Hear the sound of a reconstructed version of the flute here.

What’s more, the New York TImes reports that the flute, made from the wing bone of a vulture, was found close to “the carved figurine of a busty, nude woman, also around 35,000 years old …” No word yet if any prehistoric marijuana was also discovered.