Swan bone flute

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Swan bone flute in the Württemberg State Museum

A swan bone flute is a primeval musical instrument made from the wing bones of a swan.

description

Paleolithic ( Upper Palaeolithic ) swan bone flutes are among the oldest musical instruments known to man. Such a flute made of bird bones was found in the Hohle Fels and the Geißenklösterle in the Swabian Alb . With the oldest direct evidence of music, the two cave sites were declared a World Heritage Site in July 2017 . The flutes are around 35,000–40,000 years old.

Finds

Fragments of the first swan bone flute were found in 1973 in the Geißenklösterle near Blaubeuren . The flute could already be put together from over 20 fragments in 1990 and is 126.5 mm long. It has three finger holes. The starting material was the wing bone of a whooper swan . The flute has a relatively high pitch : a3, b3, c4, e4, f4.

In the summer of 2008 another flute was found from the spoke of a griffon vulture . The flute is 22 centimeters long, has five holes and a notch at the end.

Other finds - so far eight flutes are known - show what an important role music played in the life of the Ach and Lone Valley in the Aurignacien . Evidence seems to be given that the cave dwellers played these instruments in different social and cultural contexts.

See also

literature

  • Stephan Heidenreich / Conny Meister / Claus Joachim Kind : Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Alb. The first Paleolithic UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany , in: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 46 (2017) No. 3, pp. 162–169.
  • Nicholas J. Conard : Les flutes aurignaciennes des grottes du Geissenklosterle et du Vogelherd (Jura souabe) / Flutes from the aurignacia of the caves Geißenklösterle and Vogelherd on the Swabian Alb. Les chemins de l'art aurignacien en Europe / The Aurignacien and the beginnings of art in Europe: Colloque international / International conference, Aurignac. 2005.
  • Nicholas J. Conard, Maria Malina, Susanne C. Münzel: New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany. Nature 460.7256 (2009): 737-740.

Web links

  • Blaubeuren Prehistory Museum: swan bone flute, griffon vulture flute, mammoth ivory flute at urmu.de.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Swabian Alb: Researchers discover the world's oldest musical instrument - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Science. June 24, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .