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Isnt this just because pants dont leave a lot of traces after tens of thousands of years, while a bone flute is much more likely to do so?
This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets. If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we'd probably never know it.
That's assuming that people like Halfdan don't exist ever