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New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany

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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)

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.

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  • Nicholas J. Conard & Maria Malina & Susanne C. Münzel, 2009. "New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany," Nature, Nature, vol. 460(7256), pages 737-740, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:460:y:2009:i:7256:d:10.1038_nature08169
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08169
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    1. Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández & Chiara Barbieri & Anna Graff & José Pérez de Arce & Hyram Moreno & Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, 2021. "Cultural macroevolution of musical instruments in South America," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Gowdy, John & Krall, Lisi, 2013. "The ultrasocial origin of the Anthropocene," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 137-147.
    3. Paul Reddish & Ronald Fischer & Joseph Bulbulia, 2013. "Let’s Dance Together: Synchrony, Shared Intentionality and Cooperation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(8), pages 1-13, August.

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