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#!"... Could be a Paleolithic flute and, consequently, the oldest musical instrument that is known ..."
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Neanderthal Bone Flute Music (Original Post)
Coyotl
Feb 2013
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supernova
(39,345 posts)1. That gives lie to the idea
that maybe the Neanderthals weren't all that creative.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)2. Also, did modern humans learn a lot of cultural traits from their big-brained bros?
Like music, art, ?????
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)3. Wow. The bonist had quite the repertoire, too. Amazing. n/t
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)4. Did Neanderthals make soup?
A paragraph-length blurp here:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/533-130208-cooking-soup-hunters
The Search for the First Bowl of Soup
Waterproof, heatproof containers were made at least 10,000 years ago, according to Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University. He and his team found such pots in a cave in China. When you look at the pots, you can see that they were in a fire, he explained. The pots may have been used for boiling soup or alcohol. And 25,000 years ago, soup may have been made by dropping heated rocks into a lined pit with water and other ingredients. Such broths would have balanced the diet and may even have been cooked by Neanderthals, since cooked starched grains have been found on their 46,000-year-old teeth. This doesnt prove that they were making soups or stews, but I would say its quite likely, said John Speth, an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.