Ich hatte hier mal den Bericht von dem prähistorischen Flötenfund in einer schwäbischen Höhle – Erfindertum hat im Ländle wahrlich Tradition. Im folgenden geht’s um eine Flöte, die evtl. sogar noch älter ist, und hier auch der Versuch, wie die Musik darauf geklungen haben könnte. Gleich mal sampeln.
It is perhaps possible that the much-underestimated Neanderthals made their own flutes. Or so a 1995 discovery of a flute made from a cave bear femur might suggest. Found by archeologist Ivan Turk in a Neanderthal campsite at Divje Babe in northwestern Slovenia, this instrument (above) is estimated to be over 43,000 years old and perhaps as much as 80,000 years old. According to musicologist Bob Fink, the flute’s four finger holes match four notes of a diatonic (Do, Re, Mi…) scale. “Unless we deny it is a flute at all,” Fink argues, the notes of the flute “are inescapably diatonic and will sound like a near-perfect fit within ANY kind of standard diatonic scale, modern or antique.” To demonstrate the point, the curator of the Slovenian National Museum had a clay replica of the flute made. You can hear it played at the top of the post by Slovenian musician Ljuben Dimkaroski.
(via openculture)