The musical rasp would have been played by scraping another piece along the grooves, producing rhythmic sounds that likely held ceremonial or social importance. The other side of the bone rasp ...

As first reported by IFLScience, Dr. Matthew Taylor, a biological anthropologist at Georgia's Augusta University, identified a musical rasp fashioned from a human humerus while studying bone ...

After sifting through bone artifacts in a museum collection, the author of a new study identified a musical rasp fashioned from a humerus, resembling a macabre instrument called an omichicahuaztli ...