Music has been of inestimable value to all humans everywhere and always.We are born unable to speak but we can create sounds from the first moment of birth.@ashleygoodall
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Nina Willburger: #FindsFriday! One of the oldest known musical instruments in the world: a #Palaeolithic #flute made from a #vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of eight known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. 1/2 https://t.co/y0LfDbK1Qa
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Baroness_Nichol/status/1682433000699469829

#FindsFriday! One of the oldest known musical instruments in the world: a #Palaeolithic #flute made from a #vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of eight known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region.
Found in the Hohle Fels cave near Schelklingen.

On display at Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren.

#archaeology

just when you thought it was safe to go back into Doggerland again…

The Submerged Palaeo-Yare: a review of Pleistocene landscapes and environments in the southern North Sea #palaeolithic #HandAxe https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/8/index.html

I just found the best soap dispenser ever, in the shape of a #palaeolithic knapped stone! Isn't it gorgeous? 😍
#prehistory #Archaeology
(second picture from the web)

Archeologists find 12,000-year-old bone flutes in Israel

https://www.dw.com/en/archeologists-find-12-000-year-old-bone-flutes-in-israel/a-65939873?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Archeology #Israel #Natufian #flute #music #instrument #religion #spirituality #animals #palaeolithic #ancienthistory #neolithic #stoneage #rituals

First day at the Hugo-Obermaier meeting in Aarhus, Denmark: welcome by the society's president Prof. Dr. Harald Floss and first interesting talks, here Yvonne Tafelmaier on the Middle Pleistocene travertine site Cannstatt "Bunker", Germany

#HugoObermaier
#HOG2023
#archaeology
#AarhusUniversity
#palaeolithic

https://mastodonapp.uk/@Torwen/110180714898748063

First day at the Hugo-Obermaier meeting in Aarhus, Denmark: welcome by the society's president Prof. Dr. Harald Floss and first interesting talks, here Yvonne Tafelmaier on the Middle Pleistocene travertine site Cannstatt "Bunker", Germany

#HugoObermaier
#HOG2023
#archaeology
#AarhusUniversity
#palaeolithic

A nice read of a Friday evening .... I wonder if Irish Palaeolithic family groups were here, with their children following relatives inside Irish cave systems to explore, to rest, to feed in, to shelter in .... this article allows us to imagine more than adults in the archaeological record. There were children, young and old, present in family/other groups. Doing child things - playing, laughing, crying, and learning.

https://aeon.co/essays/what-was-it-like-to-grow-up-in-the-last-ice-age?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

#Palaeolithic #Ireland #archaeology

176 #Palaeolithic localities!

Tracking Pleistocene occupation on the Eastern Iranian Plateau: preliminary results
https://cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/tracking-pleistocene-occupation-on-the-eastern-iranian-plateau-preliminary-results/CC31A067A435B28736DB5A8200652D78

The presence of bifacial industries with similarities to Acheulean industries in India and Arabia, and of Levallois technology, and tools characteristic of the Late Palaeolithic, opens a new window for studying the role that this part of Iran played in the dispersal of Pleistocene hominin populations into Central and South Asia

Children of the Ice Age

With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the #Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid

by April Nowell

"These assumptions are changing. A growing body of ethnographic and archaeological research is revealing the ways these forgotten figures have always contributed to the welfare of their communities and themselves. Herding, fetching water, harvesting vegetables, running market stalls, collecting firewood, tending animals, cleaning and sweeping, serving as musicians, working as soldiers in times of war, and caring for younger siblings are all common examples of tasks taken on by children around the world and across time. These tasks leave their mark in the archaeological record."
#Archaeology #IceAge

Read more: https://aeon.co/essays/what-was-it-like-to-grow-up-in-the-last-ice-age?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Un beau moment de science qui s'annonce ! Le résultat aussi d'une belle collaboration avec les collègues marocains, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar et INSAP, Rabat, le Lampea et Aix-Marseille Université
#prehistory #palaeolithic

The answer:
This is a #replica of the #palaeolithic #flute found at Grubgraben, #Austria. It's 16cm long with 3 finger holes, made from a #reindeer #tibia, dated to 18.000-19.000 BP, and attributed to the late #Gravettian #culture. It's the earliest known flute with finger holes created by a #flint drill; for older ones scraping was used. The upper part did not survive intact, so we don't know exactly what the mouthpiece was like, but based on experimentation notch or rim-blown seem likeliest.

One of my favourite holidays of recent years was a couple of days at the British Museum. Here is one report from there:

"What sort of Ape are we?"
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Bob Harvey -
https://geograph.org.uk/p/7175729

#Archaeology #BritishMusuem #Exhibition #Palaeolithic #History #Prehistory #Geograph #Photography

RT @GennaiJacopo
Blades have a special meaning in #Palaeolithic #Archaeology, for better or worse. On #FlintFriday 13.01 at 16:00 CET we'll discuss laminar productions before the Upper Palaeolithic, focusing on late #Neanderthals and early European Homo sapiens. Ask for the Teams #link to join!

Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of #Writing? – New #research proposes that symbols in 20,000-year-old #cave #drawings are a proto-writing system, but not all scientists are convinced #language #CaveArt #art #palaeolithic #paleolithic #science #paleoanthropology
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-these-cave-markings-be-the-earliest-form-of-writing-180981403/

Many pertinent points made here.
#Palaeolithic cave art is endlessly fascinating & immensely moving in person, and careful study can advance aspects of our understanding... but claims about demonstrating meanings in this paper seem overextended. Wonder what the reviewers said.
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RT @Physiologos
Cette étude rencontre un succès médiatique phénoménal, et pourtant elle est grevée par cinq gros problèmes…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/j…
https://twitter.com/Physiologos/status/1611473969550397449

#Lithics love never gonna leave me 😍
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RT @GennaiJacopo
Is this boy coming from 300 km away? In any case, it was very well appreciated. #flinttool #palaeolithic #Tuscany #Archaeology #paleolithique #paleolithikum
https://twitter.com/GennaiJacopo/status/1605147953177452546

RT @Obermaier_Soc
We are *extremely* excited to share first information on our 64th annual meeting in Aarhus next year 😍 Thanks for the invitation @AU_Archaeology and @MuseumMoesgaard - we can't wait!
#anticipationishalfthefun #conference
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #ScienceTwitter

RT @Obermaier_Soc
We are *extremely* excited to share first information on our 64th annual meeting in Aarhus next year 😍 Thanks for the invitation @AU_Archaeology and @MuseumMoesgaard - we can't wait!
#anticipationishalfthefun #conference
#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Mesolithic #ScienceTwitter

#WelshHistoryThread 7

Today, we leave behind the #Palaeolithic, with its caves, rudimentary stone tools and remains of animals long extinct from #Wales.

The last Ice Age is an important time in Wales. Humans abandoned Wales.

However, this was the time when the land was shaped. Between 27000 and 17000 years ago, most of Wales was covered in ice.

In this 10,000 year span, Eryri (Snowdonia) was carved and Wales's other mountain ranges were shaped!

#Cymru #History #IceAge #Climate #Geography