But he added the Hohle Fels flute and the others found across Europe strengthen evidence that modern humans in Europe were establishing cultural behavior similar to our own.

In 2008, a team led by Archaeologist Nicholas Conard from the University of Tübingen discovered the Venus of Hohle Fels, dating it to between 40,000 and 35,000 years old. This figurine is the ...

The Hohle Fels flute is more complete and appears slightly older than bone and ivory fragments from seven other flutes recovered in southern German caves and documented by Conard and his ...

Many of the Hohle Fels objects are on display at the Urgeschichtliche Museum (Museum of Prehistory) in Blaubeuren, Germany, and a 3D scan of the water bird can be accessed online.

The earliest modern human inhabitants of Europe already had a sophisticated musical tradition, according to a report this week describing a five-hole bird-bone flute from the cave of Hohle Fels in ...

Es war das Jahr 2008: Im „Hohle Fels“ in Schelklingen fanden Forscher im Rahmen von Ausgrabungen die bisher älteste bekannte, von Menschenhand geschaffene, Frauenfigur: Die „Venus vom Hohle ...

Ein Eiszeitkunstwerk aus der Welterbe-Höhle „Hohle Fels“ auf der Schwäbischen Alb ist nicht wie jahrelang angenommen ein Pferd – sondern ein Bär. Die Einzelheiten.

When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...