John Noble Wilford, writer, retired senior science correspondent for The New York Times. Wilford won the Pulitzer Prize twice and worked at The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. The target audience for the article is an everyday person; it does not have any hard terms or anything. Musicians, historians and archaeologists may read it more often, but is meant for anyone. Wilford explains the historical fact about the first known instrument to be made which is a flute. It was made from bird bone and mammoth ivory. The one that was recently found is at least 42,000 years old and it was found in the Geissenklostele Cave. Thomas Higham, who is from the University of Oxford in England, led the research about the oldest flute. To determine
