Geißenklösterle
Cave in the Ach valley that yielded flutes made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, the oldest known musical instruments, alongside early Aurignacian tools and ornaments.
Dated events and their evidence
- 40,500 BCE mainstream
Bone and ivory flutes made; refined radiocarbon puts the earliest Aurignacian here at 43,000 to 42,000 years ago source
Where
48.3983° N, 9.7722° E
Sources
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