Timeline of European Art and Music - The Stone Age

Music timestamps

0:00 - Flute from Geißenklösterle cave in Germany

2:33 - Improvisation on a mammoth-ivory flute, recorded close to the mouth of the Geissenklösterle cave in Germany, in the spring

3:50 - Mammoth ivory and bird bone flutes of Germany - The world's oldest musical instruments

4:05 - Bone flute

4:30 - Reed instrument - Made by an archaeologist adding a reed of birchbark to a discovered bone flute (the same as played just before this piece), as an estimation of how some of the bone flutes may have actually been played

4:49 - Drum - Made of leather, stretched around a circular frame

7:17 - Conch - From Marsoulas a cave in Southwestern France, notable for its archaeological wealth

9:00 - Blowing horn - Large horn from an ox

9:10 - Cow horn

9:48 - Bullroarer - Simply an oval shaped piece of wood attached to a string, in this case, echoing through the forest. Swung overhead at high speeds. Used as an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device for communicating over great distances