Earliest known music. Ever!

Started by alexis, Jun 24, 2009, 01:18 PM

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alexis

The link has someone playing a replica. I would DIE to know if the replica is accurate enough so that the notes are the same as when initially made; to know if the sounds were random, or fit into some scale-type structure.

I hope they find another, wouldn't that be something if we found they were made to spec, and the holes not just randomly placed!

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June 25, 2009
Stone Age Flutes Are Window Into Early Music
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now southwestern Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world.

Music and sculpture
I love John,
I love Paul,
And George and Ringo,
I love them all!

Alexis

Kevin

Dr. Conard's discovery in 2004 of the seven-inch three-hole ivory flute at the Geissenklösterle cave, also near Ulm, inspired him to widen his search of caves, saying at the time that southern Germany "may have been one of the places where human culture originated."

Cripes. Himmler sent out teams of SS sponsored archeoligists looking for exactly this kind of "proof" that the aryans were the source of western culture.
But one flute don't make an orchestra. Not sure if a non-german team would reach the same conclusion as the good Dr Conrad. Where's Indie when you need him?

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