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The bone was discovered in a 1995 expedition led by Ivan Turk. When it was found, he proposed that it was either a musical artifact or a gnawed bone pierced with teeth, [2] favouring the former. As described by Turk and his colleagues, the Neanderthal musical instrument from Divje babe I would be the oldest known musical instrument.
The artifact known as the Divje Babe flute, which was discovered in Slovenia in 1995, has also been suggested as the oldest Paleolithic flute, though this claim has been disputed. The artifact is AMS-14C dated to 43100 ± 700 year old cave bear femur pierced with spaced holes. Later dating using the more powerful ESR method has shown that the ...
The oldest flute ever discovered may be the so-called Divje Babe flute, found in the Cerkno Hills, Slovenia in 1995, though this is disputed. [38] The item in question is a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear , and has been dated to about 43,000 years ago.
This was the oldest confirmed musical instrument ever found, [27] until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be older, at 42,000 to 43,000 years. [3] The Hohle Fels flute is one of several found in the Hohle Fels cavern next to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a short distance from the oldest known human carving. [28]
Then she found a 500-year-old cannon. ... Lane Sainty, USA TODAY NETWORK. January 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM. It was a September morning in 2020, and Deni Seymour, an archeologist, was searching for ...
This is a list of official state instruments. ... musical instrument) Kentucky: Appalachian dulcimer: 2001 [3] "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ (theater pipe organ) 2005 [4]
A hoard of Norse treasure was discovered at the Viking site of Jelling, in the western region of Denmark.. Found in 2021, it included 23 pieces of goldwork, some with inscriptions, and was named ...
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