New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany

Nicholas J. Conard (), Maria Malina and Susanne C. Münzel
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Nicholas J. Conard: Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
Maria Malina: Research Project: The Role of Culture in The Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Susanne C. Münzel: Zentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany

Nature, 2009, vol. 460, issue 7256, 737-740

Abstract: Early music movement The earliest modern human inhabitants of Europe already had a sophisticated musical tradition, according to a report this week describing a five-hole bird-bone flute from the cave of Hohle Fels in southern Germany that is around 35,000 years old. Other flutes of similar age are known, but none of this sophistication or completeness. The flute was found close to the mammoth-ivory Venus figurine discovered recently (Nature 459, 248–252; 2009) by the same research group.

Date: 2009
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