The oldest instrument in the world is 43.000 years old

Oldest instrument

A group of researchers has discovered the older musical instrument world, a flute made of bird bone and mammoth ivory, which is between 42.000 and 43.000 years old. The find has been made in a cave in southern Germany, where evidence of an early occupation of Europe by Homo Sapiens was also found.

The authors of the work, published in the Journal of human evolution, have been studying the flute since it was found in 2009 and, until now, using radiocarbon dating, they had not been able to ascertain the time when it was built.

As one of the authors, Nick Conard, has pointed out, "the results obtained now are consistent," in addition, he has indicated that "they coincide with a hypothesis made several years ago, that the Danube river it was a fundamental corridor for the movement of human beings and technological innovations towards the center of Europe, between 40.000 and 45.000 years ago ».

Conard, has also highlighted that the cave in which the flute has been found, known as 'Geissenkloesterle', is one of the places in the region where there have been more finds of personal ornaments, figurative art, mythical imagery and musical instruments.

For experts, music hace 43.000 años it could have had very profound implications. Some researchers believe that music may have been one of the key behaviors for the human species, which helped give it an advantage over the more conservative Neanderthals.

«Music was used in many social contexts: possibly religious, possibly recreational. Very similar to how music is used today, in different settings, "said Conard, for whom flutes are" the oldest record of technological and artistic innovations "of the Aurignacian period. "This culture also created the oldest known example of art that must represent a person, which was found in the same cave in 2008: a 35.000-year-old statue," he pointed out.

Modern humans during the Aurignacian period They were in central Europe, at least 2.000 to 3.000 years before this climatic deterioration, when huge icebergs, born from the North Atlantic ice sheets, and temperatures plummeted.

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