The team from Tubingen University have published details of three flutes found in the Hohle Fels cavern in southwest Germany. Members of the same team also unveiled a Hohle Fels find that could be the world's oldest figure of a woman.
The most well-preserved of the flutes is made from a vulture's wing bone, measuring 20cm long with five finger holes and two "V"-shaped notches on one end of the instrument into which the researchers assume the player blew.Click the hyperlink to hear what the Hohle Fels flute might have sounded like:
In 1995, Ivan Turk found an approximately 43,100 year-old juvenile cave bear femur at the Divje Babe site, near a Mousterian hearth in Slovenia. Because it has characteristics of a flute, he has called it the "Neanderthal flute."Whether it is actually a flute created by Neanderthals is a subject of debate. It is broken at both ends, and has two complete holes and what may be the incomplete remains of one hole on each end, meaning that the bone may have had four or more holes before being damaged.
It is possible the bone was gnawed on by carnivores and the holes are marks left by the incisors of the animal.
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