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neanderthal flute

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Taniwha420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow. Never heard of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute

    Not a rudimentary instrument by any means! Capable of 3.5 octaves and modern scales and ornamentation.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I often wonder how many relatively advanced civilizations might have existed of which all trace was wiped away by time.

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      • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think about this a lot. Modern homo sapiens have been around for ~160,000 years. Recorded history starts around 5,000 years ago.

        I cannot comprehend the amount of human history we will simply never know.

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      • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The vast majority of all human culture to ever exist is forgotten already.

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  • swab148@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure that she’d rock it!

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    did she get “cancelled” for sexually abusing her back up dancers?

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All the rumours are true

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Homo sapiens playing flutes is cultural appropriation!

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not, we learned it from great great great… great GamGam the Neanderthal :)

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    • PilferJynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, that thing is clearly a ceremonial religious object, like all the things we discover.

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  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The reconstructed Neanderthal flute has a capability of 3½ octaves and all contemporary music genres can be played on it. It is possible to perform a series of musical articulations and ornamentations such as legato, staccato, double and triple tonguing, flutter-tonguing, glissando, chromatic scales, trills, broken chords, interval leaps, and melodic successions from the lowest to the highest tones (via Wikipedia)

    There is also a video of Ljuben Dimkaroski playing a replica of the flute.

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No! It was not meant for us.

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