geriatrix
Level 8 DP Minister
Space is a vast place...
Posts: 3,204
Mini-Profile Background: {"image":"https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n8IAAOSwltRkNCSF/s-l1600.webp","color":"59a0f1"}
Mini-Profile Text Color: 80b6f4
Mini-Profile Name Color: 80b6f4
|
Post by geriatrix on Jun 8, 2015 22:13:35 GMT
A recent discovery suggests that music is played much earlier than previously suspected -- and apparently by humans of a different species from ourselves. In 1995, deep in a cave in Slovenia occupied 45,000 years ago by Neanderthals, a flute was found. It was made from the leg bone of a young bear. Though broken at both ends, it still has four finger holes. In its prime it could produce at least four notes. Simple whistles have been found earlier than this, capable of only a single note (two such whistles, made by modern humans perhaps 100,000 years ago, have been unearthed in Libya). But if accurately dated, this Neanderthal flute is by far the earliest known example of music. Source: www.historyworld.net
|
|
|
Post by sadie on Oct 10, 2018 15:28:09 GMT
Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest known musical instruments in the world. The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by modern humans - Homo sapiens. Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old. The findings are described in the Journal of Human Evolution.
|
|