Music for cavemen - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com
This article is about a 35,000 year old bone flute found in Germany. Four similar instruments have been found in the same region. I found this fascinating:
Researchers know that modern humans prevailed over Neanderthals in Europe 20,000 to 35,000 years ago, and that the principal factors behind the Neanderthals’ disappearance probably included culture and climate as well as diet. Conard and his colleagues - Maria Malina of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Susanne Munzel of the University of Tubingen - argue that the musical tradition fostered by Homo sapiens may have contributed by bonding communities more closely together.
Click the link to see a picture of the bone flute, read more about it, and hear a lovely pentatonic recording of “what it might have sounded like.”
