Timeline of European Art and Music - Prehistory

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0:00 - Various bird songs at a pond in Germany.

1:03 - Sound of fire

3:12 - Beech Forest of Germany in Spring

4:09 - European Robin

4:38 - 1,600,000 BC - English - Stone handaxe

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

10:11 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German - Venus of Hohle Fels

11:11 - Inhabited 40,000-30,000 BC - Potočka zijalka cave

11:41 - 42,000 - 43,000 BC - German cave - Flutes made of mammoth tusks.

12:41 - 42,000 - 43,000 BC - German cave - Flute made of bird bone.

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

16:18 - Greylag Goose

16:52 - 35,000 - 40,000 BC - German - Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave

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.

19:27 - Barn swallow

19:57 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Brillenhöhle cave

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

22:20 - Cicada orni

22:48 - Inhabited 30,000 - 12,000 BC - Germany - Geißenklösterle cave entrance.

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.

29:16 - Black Forest of Germany in Autum with mist

29:50 - Black Forest of Germany in Autum with mist

30:57 - Lightning over nothern Italy

33:25 - Rainbow in German alps

33:55 - Rainbow in Val Camonica, Italy.

34:25 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - Horses

34:55 - A walk through the Black Forest of Germany in autum

36:54 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - more horses

37:24 - A walk through the Black Forest of Germany in autum

37:55 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - Hall of the Bulls

38:25 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - aurochs (extinct species of large wild cattle)

38:55 - Blizzard in the Netherlands

39:55 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - a man with a bird head and a bison

40:25 - A walk through the Black Forest of Germany in winter

40:56 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - A dun horse

41:26 - Grey Wolves in Germany (domesticated 33,000-15,000 BC)

41:56 - 20,000 BC - French - Lascaux Cave paintings - Megaloceros with line of dots

42:26 - A walk through the Black Forest of Germany in winter

43:00 - A walk through the Black Forest of Germany in winter

43:17 - Aurora Borealis in Norway (footage not sped up)

44:16 - Blue Tit

44:45 - 15,000-13,000 BC - French - Bison Licking Insect Bite

45:15 - Great Tit

45:45 - 12,500 BC - Russian - Kapova Cave Paintings - Red-Ochre Painting of Mammoths

46:15 - European Starling

46:46 - 12,000 BC - Central Europe - Jadeite axe

47:16 - European Goldfinch

47:47 - 17,000 - 11,000 BC - Western Europe - Bone tools

48:17 - Winter's survivors emerge in the spring to pass themselves into the future through their children.