neanderthal flute

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Wow. Never heard of it. https://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.
- I often wonder how many relatively advanced civilizations might have existed of which all trace was wiped away by time.
  
  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.
  
  The vast majority of all human culture to ever exist is forgotten already.
did she get "cancelled" for sexually abusing her back up dancers?
- All the rumours are true
Homo sapiens playing flutes is cultural appropriation!
- It's not, we learned it from great great great... great GamGam the Neanderthal :)
- Nah, that thing is clearly a ceremonial religious object, like all the things we discover.
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.
I'm sure that she'd rock it!
No! It was not meant for us.

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