Humans were painting and sitting around campfires making music all the way back to 40,000 years ago.
When you make a flute you put the holes in places to make notes. Notes are mathematical. There was not only a flute made out of mammoth tusk but also smaller flutes made out of bird bones. So you have octaves and harmonies. You undoubtedly had songs that they repeated around the fire. Imagine a dark night 40,000 years ago in Germany. There are still glaciers from the Ice Age. Strange animals roaming the night. And up in a cave the glow of a campfire and the sounds of several flutes playing the oldest music ever made.
Early modern humans could have spent their evenings sitting around the fire, playing bone flutes and singing songs 40,000 years ago, newly discovered ancient musical instruments indicate. The bone flutes push back the date researchers think human creativity evolved.
Researchers were studying a modern human settlement called Geißenklösterle, a part of the Swabian caves system in southern Germany, when they came across the bone flutes. One is made of mammoth ivory, while the other seems to be made of bones from a bird. They also found a collection of perforated teeth, ornaments and stone tools at the site.
"These results are consistent with a hypothesis we made several years ago that the Danube River was a key corridor for the movement of humans and technological innovations into central Europe between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago," study researcher Nick Conard, of Tübingen University, said in a statement.
"Geißenklösterle is one of several caves in the region that has produced important examples of personal ornaments, figurative art, mythical imagery and musical instruments. The new dates prove the great antiquity of the Aurignacian in Swabia." The Aurignacian refers to an ancient culture and the associated tools.
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