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  2. Paleolithic flute - Wikipedia

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    Aurignacian flute made from an animal bone, 43,000 to 39,000 years old, Geissenklösterle (). During regular archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany.

  3. Aurignacian - Wikipedia

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    The oldest undisputed musical instrument was the Hohle Fels Flute discovered in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany's Swabian Alb in 2008. [14] The flute is made from a vulture's wing bone perforated with five finger holes, and dates to approximately 35,000-40,000 years ago. [14] A flute was also found at the Abri Blanchard in southwestern France. [15]

  4. Prehistoric music - Wikipedia

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    Aurignacian flute made from a vulture bone, Geissenklösterle , which is about 35,000 years old In 2008, archaeologists discovered a bone flute in the Hohle Fels cave near Ulm , Germany. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The five-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone.

  5. Geissenklösterle - Wikipedia

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    The Aurignacian levels date to between 43,000 and 32,000 years ago, and have yielded stone tools, artefacts made from antlers, bones and ivory. Among the most notable items are two flutes carved from bird bone and mammoth ivory, the oldest known musical instruments with an age of 42,000 to 43,000 years.

  6. Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura - Wikipedia

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    The caves of the Swabian Jura are particularly famous for their high density of artifacts from the Aurignacian tradition, ranging from roughly 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. The Aurignacian tradition is characterized by the advent of symbolic communication (in the form of beads and pendants), specialized flint blades, and figurative art, all of ...

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  8. Cro-Magnon - Wikipedia

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    Replica of an Aurignacian bone flute from Geissenklösterle, Germany Music played with a replica of the 33,000-year-old Izturitz flute found in the Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves Cro-Magnons are known to have created flutes out of hollow bird bones as well as mammoth ivory, first appearing in the archaeological record with the Aurignacian about ...

  9. Cave of Aurignac - Wikipedia

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    Louis Meroc wrote in 1963: "The site of Aurignac 2 was inhabited before the collapse of the first cave, which was certainly only a small appendage of a much larger set of shelters. Based on the current state of knowledge, we assume, that the caves of Aurignac have, apart from the Aurignacian settlers, been unknown to later Paleolithic populations."