c. 45,000 BCE
Art & Culture
Central Europe
Bone flutes
Vulture-bone and mammoth-ivory flutes from the Swabian Jura, tuned to a scale.
Why it mattered
Music as technology: instruments built to a deliberate acoustic design.
Stone Age
45,000 BCE
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