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Timeline of European Art and Music - Prehistory
Timestamps in comments.
0:00 - Various bird songs at a pond in Germany.
Before man ever produced music, he would have first heard the sounds of nature.
1:03 - The use of fire was crucial in gaining access to many nutrient sources, which enabled the development of larger brains. This also would have been a common sound when sleeping
European evidence suggests that early hominins moved into northern latitudes without the habitual use of fire. It was only much later, from 300,000 to 400,000 years ago onward, that fire became a significant part of the hominin technological repertoire.
3:12 - Beech Forest of Germany in Spring
4:09 - European Robin
a male singing his territorial song
4:38 - 1,600,000 BC - English - Stone handaxe - An Acheulean handaxe from Swakscombe, Kent (England). Named for St. Acheul on the Somme River in France, where the first tools from this tradition were found.
5:08- Common Redstart
5:38 - 400,000 - 200,000 BC - Central Europe - Stone tools found in a neanderthal flint workshop discovered in Poland
6:08 - Sparrowhawk
6:45 - Rock Dove mating call
7:16 - 80,000 - 40,000 BC - French - An Aurignacian blade shown from three angles. Named for the French village of Aurignac, where prehistoric remains were discovered in a cave in 1860, the Aurignacian culture is associated with th
7:46 - Eurasian Collared Dove
8:39 - Male Collared Dove Calling To Female
9:11 - 50,000-60,000 BC - Neanderthal - Divje Babe flute
The world's oldest known musical instrument, thought to have been made by Neanderthals, and found in what is modern day Slovenia. Made from the leg bone of a cave bear.
10:11 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German - Venus of Hohle Fels
Oldest undisputed example of a depiction of a human being.
11:11 - Inhabited 40,000-30,000 BC - Potočka zijalka cave
Site where the Divje Babe flute was discovered. In the Eastern Karawank mountains in Slovenia, where the remains of a human residence, dated to the Aurignacian era.
11:41 - 42,000 - 43,000 BC - German cave
Flutes made of mammoth tusks. Cave in Geißenklösterle, in southern Germany, near Munich. The discovery supports the thinking that humans followed the River Danube bringing technological in
12:41 - 42,000 - 43,000 BC - German cave - Flute made of bird bone. Oldest known musical instruments.
13:41 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German - Bird bone flute - The oldest known human flute, from Hohle Fels Cave in Germany. A thin bird-bone flute carved from a Griffon Vulture
14:11 - Inhabited 40,000 BC - German - Hohle Fels Cave, entrance -
14:41 - Inhabited 40,000 BC - German - Hohle Fels Cave, interior -
15:11 - Eurasian Teal
15:48 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German
Lion-Human of Hohlenstein-Stadel
Carved out of mammoth ivory using a flint knife.
Thought to be modled after a European cave lion,
which are now extinct
16:18 - Greylag Goose
16:52 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German
Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave
Made from mammoth ivoryUsually interpreted as an expression of worship,
which is why in German the figure is called an adorant, a word meaning
worshipper
17:22 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Brillenhöhle cave - More of the path leading to the cave
17:52 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Brillenhöhle cave
Path leading to the cave
18:22 - Common cuckoo
18:57 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Brillenhöhle cave - Entrance of the cave.
The gate (a modern addition obviously) is only opened for researches now, or special occasions.
19:27 - Barn swallow
19:57 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Brillenhöhle cave
At one time local teenagers used to use the cave for parties. The site of many archeological findings, and near
Geißenklösterle, also the site of several ancient artefacts and inha
20:27 - Green woodpecker
20:50 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Germany - Path from Brillenhöhle to Geißenklösterle - The 'Kissing Sow' rock formation in the top left
21:20 - Red Back Shrike
21:50 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Germany - Path from Brillenhöhle to Geißenklösterle
The path continues through this natural arch
22:20 - Cicada orni
22:48 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Germany - Geißenklösterle cave entrance.
The site of several archeological findings
23:18 - Common frog
23:55 - 35,000-11,000 BC - Spain - Cave of Altamira painting - Bison
24:25 - Mole cricket
24:55 - 35,000-11,000 BC - Spain - Cave of Altamira painting
Bison on the roof of the pit
25:25 - Black forest thunderstorm
25:55 - Fireflies, also called Lightning bugs
27:40 - Fireflies, also called Lightning bugs
28:10 - Tawny owl
28:46 - 32,000 BC - French - Cave Hyena - Found in the Chauvet cave.
The European cave hyena was much larger than its modern African cousin, estimated to weigh 225 lbs, compared to the African which only weighs 170lb at the upper limit
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