German archeologists have found a 35,000-40,000 year old flute, made from a vulture's wing bone, in the Hohle Fels cavern in southwest Germany.
This is a fantastic discovery, giving insight into not only how advanced and intelligent humans were 40,000 years ago, but also how music have been important to us for a very long time, maybe even an important part of the evolution of our civilization. And not just any music (or sound), mind you, but "complex" melodic music, with instruments capable of playing various notes, as can clearly be seen from this flute complete with finger holes!
Quoting the archeological team, led by Professor Nicholas Conard of Tübingen University:
The power of music continues to amaze.
This is a fantastic discovery, giving insight into not only how advanced and intelligent humans were 40,000 years ago, but also how music have been important to us for a very long time, maybe even an important part of the evolution of our civilization. And not just any music (or sound), mind you, but "complex" melodic music, with instruments capable of playing various notes, as can clearly be seen from this flute complete with finger holes!
Quoting the archeological team, led by Professor Nicholas Conard of Tübingen University:
Music could have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks, and thereby perhaps have helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans relative to a culturally more conservative and demographically more isolated Neanderthal populations,
The power of music continues to amaze.