This bone flute is at least 42,000 years old according to the latest dating. In and around the small city of Ulm, Germany there have been amazing cave discoveries of bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes as well as some ivory statuettes of voluptuous women. The caves also have distinctive decorations on their walls. With the latest dating putting the artifacts’ age at over 40,000 years old, they are the oldest surviving musical instruments. If these new analyses are correct, these small flutes and figurines back a controversial hypothesis: that homo sapiens arrived in the upper Danube region of Germany before an extremely cold phase of the ice age, around 39,000 years ago. That much earlier than previously believed.
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