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The Neanderthal flute was found in the Mousterian level, which contained lithic artefacts and hearths. The flute was cemented into the phosphate breccia in close proximity to the hearth. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The Mousterian level containing the flute was below an Aurignacian level containing stone artefacts and osseous points of anatomically modern ...
The Divje Babe Flute was found in layer 8, dated to the middle Paleolithic of 50,000 to 35,000 years ago. [4] It was in close vicinity to a hearth, indicating the presence of prehistoric people, probably Neanderthals. [4] The flute is a fragment of a thigh bone from a young cave bear with four recessed holes. [4]
Reconstruction drawing of a flint blade from the Le Moustier site with the ochre-bitumen mixture as a handle and hypothetical handling. Study of the artifacts found in Le Moustier reveals the use of glue made from a mixture of ocher and bitumen by Middle Paleolithic humans to make hand grips for cutting and scraping stone tools. [6]
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The flute is made from a vulture radius bone perforated with five finger holes, and dates to approximately 35,000 years ago. [2] Several years before, two flutes made of mute swan bone and one made of woolly mammoth ivory were found in the nearby Geissenklösterle cave. The team that made the Hohle Fels discovery wrote that these finds were, at ...
The cave was excavated in the 1930s, with bones and stone artifacts found, before World War Two interrupted the work. Technology at the time could not identify the bones.
Researchers also probed how Neanderthal ancestry changed among the early modern humans over time. They found some genes “present at high frequency” in the early humans which they think were ...
Divje Babe flute. 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.