The Philosopher Non-Africans have Neanderthal DNA, this is a fact. The average European has on average 2.7% Neanderthal DNA, I myself had a genetic test done, which showed that 2.6% of my DNA is of Neanderthal origin.
albinotatertot Yes some Homo Sapiens did have children with Neanderthals. But that's a very small amount of people who did so. I hate to think their children would look like...
if this one was so advanced and capable, I can only speculate about a lot of other instruments that didn't survive because they were made of wood or something...
@@@jejfcjsksksw1209 at that time humans were only living to about 25-35. so neanderthals if they were alive today and had the same level of medical care as us they could live for very... very.. long 70~150 years.
Revrot right. You can almost see the bear it came from. The peoples who hunted it. Imagine the man or women who carved this. Sitting by the fire in a dark cave slowly widdling away the bone of an animal that let them live to see another day. Gives me chills.
They didn't play this music though, as this is an Italian Modernist classical piece composed in the 1950s (that pretended to be a Baroque piece from the early 1700s and continues to fool people to this day). Some of the notes are even out of tune because the bone flute has too limited a range to reach the highest and lowest notes in the melody (and also because the tuning of the flute likely has nothing to do with modern scales). We will never, ever know what the people who made this flute played on it.
@@tankermottind actually tuning has been pretty much the same across the ages and around the world. What varies much are the different modes in which scales are used, the number of notes used and the intonation used but they all pretty much adhere to a diatonic scale.
@@Ashabarala You have to consider that the Neanderthal disappeared more than 40,000 years ago, which was years before even the Neolithic (Late Stone Age), so who knows. Also, what if it isn't a flute at all?
I agree. I don't think Neanderthals were dumb, and I also feel that they had cultures, languages, and even spirituality, if some of their alleged burial rituals are anything to go by. I believe they were, in essence, just as 'human' and I am.
They were just as human as us, because there are traces of neanderthal and denisovan DNA in the DNA of modern humans. This means that humans, neanderthals and denisovans interbred with each other and produced fertile offsprings. Only the same species can breed and produce fertile offsprings. If Two different species bred and produced an offspring, that offspring would not be fertile and therefore cannot pass on their genes and survive, for example a liger is an offspring produced by the breeding of a lion and tiger. A liger is not fertile, because even though they are cats, lions and tigers are two different species. This just goes to show that neanderthals and denisovans were just as humans as us, we fucked each other after all 😂.
the flute is haunting yet beautiful. Reminiscent of days before civilization. tend of thousands of years before civilization when man was an active part of the wild. When we were apart of nature and the wild was a part of us. We sat huddled around fires in the cold, making names for the beasts just beyond the light and making music with the first instruments. This wakes something that feels really old. Like some part of the deepest recesses of your brain remembers it. Humans have made music since we had the capacity to understand ourselves when we emerged 200000. We didn't always have instruments, we used our voices and rocks. Making music and listening is a part of being human and is one of our oldest traits. I also have to say this is one of the coolest things. reconstructing a flute made by an extinct human species from the femur of an extinct bear to make sounds that haven't been heard in 35000 years.
@Bigfoot Well, that's because you're opinion involves changing the very meaning of the word civilization. This was tens of thousands of years before the oldest civilization known to man. When people were just surviving with no politics or governments involved. Just tiny tribes scattered all over the world. Back to the very beginning. Maybe you're confusing the word civilization with culture. Because *culture* exists anywhere where people are gathered together, sedentary or nomadic, and cooperating with one another to stay alive. But not civilization. Anyways, the thought about all this is so fascinating. If only we could time travel just to see how things unfolded throughout history. Like a time lapse of 50,000 years. How amazing would it be?
What's amazing is not a single person had played that sound in that cave in thousands of years. It must have been a really spiritual moment. I know it would have been for me.
Well tbh the first minutes he plays a cover form the adagio in G from Albinoni, published the first time in 1990... sooo would you like to be a nineties' kid?
@@overpricedhealthcare just instead of doing nothing you could listen to music from Your friend and when happy like you would be hearing music it just would be less boring and when bored we feel time slower
Amazing. A pre-historic flute made from the femur of bear no longer with us being used to play out classical compositions. If that ain't just the coolest friggin' thing...
RIP to the GOAT Engbooshk Nungson He was a huge inspiration to my RUclips Channel and SoundCloud Career. He was crushed by a mammoth when he tried to visit his girl when her parents weren't at the cave (2005 BC- 2027 BC)
arroganter Fels I mean we’ve got a mouse and a rat, a rabbit and a hare, a turtle and tortoise, an alligator and a crocodile, a lion and a tiger, and a horse and a donkey, but we humans (Homo Sapiens) have none anymore from our human kind.
Besides all of the memes and jokes in the comments, hearing what was possibly music from another hominid makes me get chills. Even someone like me who majors in env studies can still feel like I'm walking back in time, to a beautiful, rich world. Simply amazing.
Quite a soul-stirring feeling, isn't it? It's a beautiful thing, to me at least, to think of the idea that there were once different types of people in the world, and they had ideas, cultures, and ways of life unique to themselves. Which makes it all the more saddening that, somehow, we lost the other peoples, most likely by our own hands.
This is actually really beautiful. Imagine the serenity of being out in the wilderness as the chilling wind howls over the landscape. And the sounds of distant echoes rebounding off of the distant mountains fills your ears. All the while you remain still in time within your tribes camp.
In the stone age, things had purpose. Music could be art but if you were carrying something around as a nomad it had to be pragmatic too. People forget that music, besides being art, _is also technology_ and in prehistoric times was used very frequently as a means of communication as well as enjoyment. A tribe that made proper use of music had a technological advantage over one that did not. Drums and flutes could be used for communication while hunting, or for socializing between two tribes. the two tribes might spot each other at great distances and have their bonespeakers signal back and forth to declare their intentions. This flute's music would carry for a fair distance and carry a challenge, warning, or invitation. Could also be used for a hunting party moving in on multiple sides of a large prey like a mammoth. One imagines a Cro-Magnon tribe intruding in Neanderthal territory hearing eerie sounds all around them. The timid ones flee fearing evil spirits but a few warriors press on -- right into the trap where they are neatly surrounded and wiped out. A coalition of Neanderthal tribes had coordinated an attack on the invader and had surrounded the Cros before they even knew they were there The survivors would return, reporting ghostly sounds and comrades who ignored the warnings and they'd never see them again. Clearly these strange mountain men had some powerful magic, better leave them alone. So might a weaker species or tribe defend against a dominant one for a very, very long time.
Listening to something so old, so ancient is overwhelming because it makes me miss a time I've never even experienced and it makes me get a feeling of being home and remember a life I've never lived among humans I'll never coexist with. So timeless, it's like it's calling me home even though I've never been home before
Seeing your comment after what I just wrote doesn't make me feel CRAZY😂 any more lol. It's like the baby isn't crying for the cradle, The cradle is crying for the baby! #CRADLEOFCIVILISATION
60,000 year old flute. There is no way a carnivore made those holes by chance. If it is true that Neanderthal had music and art we have to reevaluate everything we think we know about our mysterious cousins.
Jacks ASMR What university do you work at as a musical paleontologist? Have you published your findings? I am very interested in your empirical work providing evidence that supports your hypothesis. I am especially interested in your explanation on how a hyena chewing on a bone created an instrument that follows a musical scale.
Jim Walker I don't work at a university, I'm 13. I believe in evolution but I have been doing research on my hypothesis and they found that homoneanderthalensis didn't play this "instrument". Plus I don't go to a university, I'm only 13, but I'm studying to be either a palioanthropologist or an anthropologist
Jim Walker Jim Walker watch the video called worlds oldest music by national geographic I think. There is also many other videos about it. And it's a hyena
Well the hurrian hymn is the oldest discovered musical piece, where the notes and rhythm were carved. But here the flute player is just playing possible tunes which have a melody in them, thus 'music'
Imagine the instrument having a practical use, with each tribe having a bonespeaker and the bonespeakers using a set of signals to announce where they were, so that tribes could interact, trade, intermarry, etc without having to live all in 1 place.
These people nowadays think they're all fancy whenever the new phone comes out. While the Neanderthals roll in their graves and say "asshole, I made the concept of cool."
These lyrics popped into my head upon hearing that flute: Chief Bangaboo, a Neanderthal who... heard the call of war He lived in France, wore bearskin pants.... Sixty-thousand years ago, says folklore.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reminds me of a WW 1 era song mom used to sing with similar words, but not about Neanderthals, that also began with the words "Chief Bangaboo."...from the 1918 era or so, I've heard her say long ago.
Such a haunting melody, it's appropriate, I feel like a terribly sad yet silent event happened, a time long gone and a people lost to time only remembered through things found not memory of life shared. A species like ourselves walking heads hung into the darkness of time . I wish I could for a brief moment find those wandering people and tell them we haven't forgotten you, we remember you, and we miss you.
This is mind blowing. I always hoped, and thought, that music might have played a vital role in the enlightenment of mankind, as it is SO, important in my life, and features in every culture in some form or other, as far as recorded history goes. This seems to verify this, which is to me a major break through in understanding our origins!
If there was a place where the last of a dying species could hold out and survive in the mountains against a superior rival for thousands of years, that place would probably be the Balkans.
The melodies and compositions played were haunting, but I think the first musician ever to play this flute would probably have played lighter ditties containing imitations of birdsong and other natural sounds. It would be fascinating to hear the music these distant part-ancestors of ours would have played all those millennia ago.
I agree, I think making such melancholic music would be a bit counter productive, unless they were mourning a death or something similar. Life was tough, music would be used mostly as a tool for creating joy, I'd imagine. Mimicking birdsong, making rudimentary compositions, simply providing a backdrop for your tribe mates to break into song with.
It could be used as such. Imagine if the Thals had used these flutes to coordinate an ambush on the numerically superior Cros when they tried to invade and take their land. If the Cros had not figured out similar technology yet the attack would seem to come completely out of nowhere, warriors appearing on all sides like evil spirits, wipe up nearly all of a Cro invasion force, and then depart as quickly as they'd come. If that happens a few times the flutes themselves might deter Cro raids.
@@hagamapama Though I suspect flutes with holes to produce different notes were more likely used in rituals and leisure for tribal bonding, I wouldn't rule out the usage of whistles to coordinate hunts, and yes, including hunts on hostile human groups if there were any around. We don't really know how prevalent these clashes were, and it's definetly long before the times of organized warfare. Humans were very scarce in Europe at the time and they mostly had cave bears and sabertooth tigers to fight, and the genetic record seems to show that they were more likely to interbreed and share culture rather than doing regular racial genocides. It can't be ruled out though, and I'm pretty sure it happened, even if not too often. Similar effect to what you describe was achieved by the gaul with the use of carnyx, they'd use it during combat and soon it imprinted itself in the roman psychology as the sound of death. They would then for example torture the legionnaries by playing it night and day non stop in the vicinity of their camp, driving some soldiers insane.
@@TrollDragomir I admit that's what I'm basing my theory off. I think it's a very, very, very old idea. Also remember that the Romans did the same thing with horns. And nearly everyone used drums in some fashion. Using music to communicate in combat is extremely time tested.
I just imagined how they sat around fire and one of them said "dj play that shit!". But this really makes u think about how they sat together and played the flute. Amazing
I think that the second song at 1:31 is the most authentic that we can get if this was a real instrument, as it is mocking animal sounds (it's not a classical piece or a folk tune). We will never know though.
The visual of these haunting tunes against the background of the mountains of Europe, and within the walls of an ancient cave, is a beautiful and haunting sight. Just imagine striding through the ancient landscape of the Ice Age, on a rare warm morning, and suddenly from some place hidden in the hills, you hear the unmistakable sound of manmade music. Simply beautiful.
Just something about this I listen to it every night. Just imagine living 60,000 years ago. Blows my mind. What was life like? Nature? The earth's climate? Idk it's all just wild to me
It was the ice age The sahara used to be a giant jungle and half of europe didn't had trees (frozen) The warmest parts of the earth were usually no hotter than 20c
Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear the songs that a Neanderthal would have played on the flute? A play-off between a Neanderthal and Ljuben Dimkaroski would be so wonderful!!
It should also be noted that there isn't a consensus among archeologists and anthropologists as to "who" made the flute. It was dubbed the "Neanderthal Flute" by Ivan Turk, who unearthed it in 1995, but it remains unclear whether it was made by Neanderthals, or Early-Modern-Humans, given that both are known to have inhabited sub-glacial Europe at the proposed time(approx. 43,000 BC).
Listening to the music played on a replica of that simple ancient flute by a talented musician is awe inspiring. The range of sound is unbelievable, the tunes were easily recognizable. Just think about it... what kind of beautiful music did its neandertal owner make with it? I wish I could go back in time to hear it.
An instrument created so long ago for someone's amusement and it's still able to play our songs of today. How amazing. We should be glad for the tiny space of time we are allotted on this earth. Make the most of it.
Not sure it was a toy or amusement. People forget that music was a tool of communication. In those ancient times music was advanced technology. It could allow communication at greater distances than the human voice. When you're carrying your life on your back you don't have time for amusements. But you do have time for tools that can help you survive. If ancient nomads carried this thing around, it was because it was useful, not just fun. If I'm right, there was a traditionally agreed upon set of signals used by Neanderthal tribes to speak to each other outside of spearthrowing range The flute could be a technology used for diplomacy between tribes announcing an intention to fight, trade or socialize, or a warning to the other tribe to leave them alone. That would make it practical to have a few people in the tribe who knew how to use them. And then would be a good reason to enjoy them for fun because they gotta practice.
Wondering about that too! I imagine it is totally different than what we hear in the video. Even human music was very different in the medival era, much more monotone drone sounding with only the pentatonic scale for instance, at a certain time. But perhaps the Neanderthalers were much more advanced musically than us so who knows what their music sounded like. Seems they must have been pretty advanced.
Probably more like chewing on the bone of a bird or animal that you hunted or trapped, or found and ate for food and then sucking and blowing out the nutrient rich marrow, which would make a sound. Then you need the brains to work out what makes different sounds, and then pick out which sounds sound right together and how to achieve all of the above. It’s actually a very high level of sophistication, but yeah at the start it was a bone and a sound.
@@misterbeans6064 And the reason it stuck around was because two different tribes might figure it out at the same time and then realize they could use it to talk to each other at long distance. I firmly believe that the first musicians were communicators. you can hear a flute at a much greater distance than you can make out a human voice. Two tribes spot each other at a distance in the mountain pass, their paths lie through each other. Without long range communication they have no idea if they were seeing a friend or enemy. Misunderstandings could easily spring up that fatally weakened one or both tribes. So the chiefs summon their musicians. One tribe's musician pipes a challenge to the other who after a moment's hesitation to confer with his chief, replies with a traditionally agreed-upon countercall. there will be no war. We will be friends today. The two tribes come together to trade, socialize and interbreed, then continue on their way, perhaps with some from each tribe joining a new mate in the other. And nobody gets hurt as long as everyone knows the code.
Being of the Mr. Incredible meme, this flute from 40,000 BCE is the oldest thing to be made into a meme. Change my mind. No seriously. If you found something older than this that was made into a meme, I’d like to know.
@d3dt3k It took some time to get a precise answer to your question. Now here it is: A potpourri of fragments from compositions of various authors has been selected, to show the capabilities of the instrument, tonal range, staccato, legato, glissando ... The list of 8 fragments is however too long for the limit of RUclips comment answers, so I have appended it to the description of the video (Neanderthal Bone Flute Music), shown below its picture. Best Primoz Jakopin
I note that the instrument closely mimics human whistling, in tone and pitch. It is said that, among classical performers, instruments are often ranked by how much they mimic he human voice. It is also said that the larynx of the Neanderthal is located high in the throat and would produce a high pitched sound, much like this flute. You may be on to something here. Would they not tune their flutes to something approaching their own voices, if only to accompany singers? The thing about whistling is, it requires a highly flexible tongue and lips as well as some knowledge of air flow and modulation, which you would also need for speech! but, not everybody can whistle well and so a flute could cover that desire. Just a thought.
:D bahahaha OMG the tone! This is priceless, it must have been difficult to learn this prehistoric instrument; but I'd imagine the Neanderthals had bigger lungs, so they must have produced a far different tone.
Haunting and beautiful. The scale is a bit weird, but that is usual for really old instruments. I wish that someone could improvise on a copy of that flute, and a frame drum too..
It is haunting and beautiful, but I also suspect this interpretation is far too tinny than how it would have originally sounded. I suspect it would have been a gentler and more beautiful sound. Even modern apes enjoy the beauty of music and enjoy more beautiful music than just any music. They can feel the difference between some beautiful flute music of Mozart and some kind of garage band screaming punk rock (nothing against punk rock, just against bad punk rock). And so, over time, I am sure the Neanderthal would have arrived at beautiful and gentle tones.
Some people say it's haunting to listen to music so old and ancient, I think what's really haunting is that these people felt and had emotions like the rest of us and they are so long dead that no one remembers them, and none of their family survived, except those that bred with homosapiens, truly scary to be so forgotten about and misunderstood.
love how the recording is done in the cave - so glad the playing of the flute was allowed; strange to hear it put to "our" more modern music. I prefer the animal sounds and haunting ethereal sounds of spirit. I have a beautiful double barrel flute that accompanies me on sacred journeys! Thanks to videographers, musicians, and all archeologists and film makers
Que emocionante que nuestros antepasados pudieran crear un instrumento donde puedan expresar sus sentimientos, magistralmente interpretado por este artista, me conmueve profundamente.
Playing magic music from the bones of a giant cave bear is one of the most badass things I can think of.
Masahiro Wakahaya If this is Neanderthal music then its not our "forefathers".
The Philosopher With the abundant stupidity these days, I would beg to differ :P
Masahiro Wakahaya HA, I see what you did there ;)
The Philosopher Non-Africans have Neanderthal DNA, this is a fact. The average European has on average 2.7% Neanderthal DNA, I myself had a genetic test done, which showed that 2.6% of my DNA is of Neanderthal origin.
albinotatertot Yes some Homo Sapiens did have children with Neanderthals. But that's a very small amount of people who did so. I hate to think their children would look like...
I remember blasting this on my ibone, ahhhhh the good old days!
You had a Ibone? I could just afford a IRock!
@@cassini6266 well! To each their own!
It's ENZO I was only able to afford an ileaf ur so lucky
Parry Winkle damn
Parry Winkle sure bro no problem!
Haunting to listen to an instrument that is thousands of years old.
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Millions, guys. Millions.
if this one was so advanced and capable, I can only speculate about a lot of other instruments that didn't survive because they were made of wood or something...
Excellent point Gabriel.
NightOwl hiiiiiii
Gabriel Cornea Wasn't that tune sweet? Now where can I buy an exact replica?
Research is showing us that Neanderthals were more intelligent than we ever thought. The've even found cave art dated at least 60,000 years old.
@@@jejfcjsksksw1209 at that time humans were only living to about 25-35. so neanderthals if they were alive today and had the same level of medical care as us they could live for very... very.. long 70~150 years.
Life was so much more different back then, it's so incredibly eerie listening to something so old.
Ron Burgundy plays better flute than these so-called primitives.
Revrot right. You can almost see the bear it came from. The peoples who hunted it. Imagine the man or women who carved this. Sitting by the fire in a dark cave slowly widdling away the bone of an animal that let them live to see another day. Gives me chills.
They didn't play this music though, as this is an Italian Modernist classical piece composed in the 1950s (that pretended to be a Baroque piece from the early 1700s and continues to fool people to this day). Some of the notes are even out of tune because the bone flute has too limited a range to reach the highest and lowest notes in the melody (and also because the tuning of the flute likely has nothing to do with modern scales). We will never, ever know what the people who made this flute played on it.
@@tankermottind actually tuning has been pretty much the same across the ages and around the world. What varies much are the different modes in which scales are used, the number of notes used and the intonation used but they all pretty much adhere to a diatonic scale.
@@Ashabarala You have to consider that the Neanderthal disappeared more than 40,000 years ago, which was years before even the Neolithic (Late Stone Age), so who knows. Also, what if it isn't a flute at all?
I agree. I don't think Neanderthals were dumb, and I also feel that they had cultures, languages, and even spirituality, if some of their alleged burial rituals are anything to go by. I believe they were, in essence, just as 'human' and I am.
Matucenus well, I think it's hard when we are all sapiens.
I agree
You're right, if they were dumb they won't be able to make the flute and other things lmao
They were just as human as us, because there are traces of neanderthal and denisovan DNA in the DNA of modern humans. This means that humans, neanderthals and denisovans interbred with each other and produced fertile offsprings. Only the same species can breed and produce fertile offsprings. If Two different species bred and produced an offspring, that offspring would not be fertile and therefore cannot pass on their genes and survive, for example a liger is an offspring produced by the breeding of a lion and tiger. A liger is not fertile, because even though they are cats, lions and tigers are two different species. This just goes to show that neanderthals and denisovans were just as humans as us, we fucked each other after all 😂.
I Am Ron I mean modern humans existed at the same time as Neanderthals
the flute is haunting yet beautiful. Reminiscent of days before civilization. tend of thousands of years before civilization when man was an active part of the wild. When we were apart of nature and the wild was a part of us. We sat huddled around fires in the cold, making names for the beasts just beyond the light and making music with the first instruments. This wakes something that feels really old. Like some part of the deepest recesses of your brain remembers it. Humans have made music since we had the capacity to understand ourselves when we emerged 200000. We didn't always have instruments, we used our voices and rocks. Making music and listening is a part of being human and is one of our oldest traits. I also have to say this is one of the coolest things. reconstructing a flute made by an extinct human species from the femur of an extinct bear to make sounds that haven't been heard in 35000 years.
We aren't extinct dumbass.
@@nordan1754 Actually it has been proven that every European and Asian has Neanderthal DNA. So they do live in us.
@@Atlas_21 so it's TRUE blacks are unique they are the chosen ones lol nah ok playing they're stupid and uniquely ugly
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@Bigfoot Well, that's because you're opinion involves changing the very meaning of the word civilization. This was tens of thousands of years before the oldest civilization known to man. When people were just surviving with no politics or governments involved. Just tiny tribes scattered all over the world. Back to the very beginning. Maybe you're confusing the word civilization with culture. Because *culture* exists anywhere where people are gathered together, sedentary or nomadic, and cooperating with one another to stay alive. But not civilization. Anyways, the thought about all this is so fascinating. If only we could time travel just to see how things unfolded throughout history. Like a time lapse of 50,000 years. How amazing would it be?
Imagine being alone at night in the ice age when it’s snowing, and just hearing this in the distance. Would scare the shit out of me
This one is particularly scary 1:31
Imagine just chilling and then hearing ode to joy
Ngl I would be amused. I know I wouldn't survive much as a caveman
There's theories that the human and Neanderthals relationship might not have been a peaceful one.
Imagine if they hunted humans for sport.
@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 well looking at who survived they might not be the only ones that hunted humanoids
What's amazing is not a single person had played that sound in that cave in thousands of years. It must have been a really spiritual moment. I know it would have been for me.
I was born in the wrong generation. Im 3 hours old and i still listen to this music, i wish people from my generation could appreciate this music!
@@r9fgd193 Joke went straight over your head...
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@@r9fgd193 wooosh
@@nahmananimations3263 this isn't Reddit
Well tbh the first minutes he plays a cover form the adagio in G from Albinoni, published the first time in 1990... sooo would you like to be a nineties' kid?
Girl : so what type of music do you listen to?
Me: kind of old one.....
Those long winter nights must have flown by
LMAO
underrated comment
??? i don’t get it
@@overpricedhealthcare just instead of doing nothing you could listen to music from Your friend and when happy like you would be hearing music it just would be less boring and when bored we feel time slower
Amazing. A pre-historic flute made from the femur of bear no longer with us being used to play out classical compositions.
If that ain't just the coolest friggin' thing...
+Arik Morales hi,, did you know the name of the piece he played?, thanks
Sadly, I do not. Not immediately anyway.
There was the Slave Choir from Vedi's opera Nabucco and fragments of Beethoven's ninth. Also Ravel's Bolero. And other stuff I don't know.
The melody at the beginning is “Albinoni’s Adagio” which is actually by Remo Giazotto.
The collective knowledge of the Internet is impressive!
what if a caveman actually did ode to joy before beethoven that would be savage
rolf XD
Because That Guy Bought That From Slovokia And He Wanted To Test It Out
2:26
literal savage
Lol
im more impressed with the neanderthal digital delay
Could be just recorded in a place with a lot of natural echo. Like a cave, maybe?
gettin that natural reverb effect
i think it's probably digital delay to simulate natural echo (which is what delay is anyway)
Did you not see the clips of the man in white robes playing the flute in what quite obviously a cave?
Are you dumb
RIP Gneurshk Boogson
My favorite artist, was brutally murdered by a tiger while hunting
(1998 BC - 1971 BC)
Also RIP Gnooshk Steekson
He was the greatest musician in the Ice Age
Too bad he died when he fell off his very tall cave
(8000-7970 BC)
RIP to the GOAT Engbooshk Nungson
He was a huge inspiration to my RUclips Channel and SoundCloud Career.
He was crushed by a mammoth when he tried to visit his girl when her parents weren't at the cave
(2005 BC- 2027 BC)
Don’t forget Kneshurgh Flardftgh who was a casualty of a tribal war. 12045bc-12077bc
RIP Lil' Gorblongk
the best musician of our time
its just a shame that he died when he got a cold and died
1996-1987 BCE
RIP Gwasrski Bskaelks
(8957 BCE - 8925 BCE)
Died of a Giant rock crushing him during hunting.
This is possibly the most haunting yet beautiful music I’ve ever heard
tno nixon...
The cave men must have been in a band Spears&Rose's I rember the greatest hits sweet mammoth of mine
+Adam crisp LOL
Haha
Cool
I used to love cave bear but I had to kill cave bear
No...he was an original member of "The Rolling Stones"
somehow this makes me feel so nostalgic
Ancestral memories
Ooga
same
Cellular memory, my friend. Same reason why you might like sitting in a tree or exploring a cave.
@@tinobemellow same reason why you might be afraid of the dark
This saddens me a bit. Like, we’re the only human race left.
arroganter Fels I mean we’ve got a mouse and a rat, a rabbit and a hare, a turtle and tortoise, an alligator and a crocodile, a lion and a tiger, and a horse and a donkey, but we humans (Homo Sapiens) have none anymore from our human kind.
It's quite sad
but they live among us, tge Homo Sapiens that lays the instrument today might be 3% Neanderthal
Plölsi Dungal yes that’s a fact, but there’s no 100% neanderthal
Our cousins the apes especially the bonobos they can be far from us but they are our relatives
Besides all of the memes and jokes in the comments, hearing what was possibly music from another hominid makes me get chills. Even someone like me who majors in env studies can still feel like I'm walking back in time, to a beautiful, rich world. Simply amazing.
Quite a soul-stirring feeling, isn't it? It's a beautiful thing, to me at least, to think of the idea that there were once different types of people in the world, and they had ideas, cultures, and ways of life unique to themselves. Which makes it all the more saddening that, somehow, we lost the other peoples, most likely by our own hands.
it's like listening to your cousin play guitar
This is actually really beautiful. Imagine the serenity of being out in the wilderness as the chilling wind howls over the landscape. And the sounds of distant echoes rebounding off of the distant mountains fills your ears. All the while you remain still in time within your tribes camp.
In the stone age, things had purpose. Music could be art but if you were carrying something around as a nomad it had to be pragmatic too.
People forget that music, besides being art, _is also technology_ and in prehistoric times was used very frequently as a means of communication as well as enjoyment. A tribe that made proper use of music had a technological advantage over one that did not.
Drums and flutes could be used for communication while hunting, or for socializing between two tribes. the two tribes might spot each other at great distances and have their bonespeakers signal back and forth to declare their intentions. This flute's music would carry for a fair distance and carry a challenge, warning, or invitation. Could also be used for a hunting party moving in on multiple sides of a large prey like a mammoth.
One imagines a Cro-Magnon tribe intruding in Neanderthal territory hearing eerie sounds all around them. The timid ones flee fearing evil spirits but a few warriors press on -- right into the trap where they are neatly surrounded and wiped out. A coalition of Neanderthal tribes had coordinated an attack on the invader and had surrounded the Cros before they even knew they were there
The survivors would return, reporting ghostly sounds and comrades who ignored the warnings and they'd never see them again. Clearly these strange mountain men had some powerful magic, better leave them alone.
So might a weaker species or tribe defend against a dominant one for a very, very long time.
2010: chilling flute music
2022: mr incredible
40,000 BC : Chilling Flute music
2022: Mr Incredible
@@ursapolsty7 So true
Listening to something so old, so ancient is overwhelming because it makes me miss a time I've never even experienced and it makes me get a feeling of being home and remember a life I've never lived among humans I'll never coexist with. So timeless, it's like it's calling me home even though I've never been home before
Thank you for the most affectionate comment ...
Reading yours words is as inspiring as this sublime music and as the video itself. You put words on what I feel.
Seeing your comment after what I just wrote doesn't make me feel CRAZY😂 any more lol.
It's like the baby isn't crying for the cradle,
The cradle is crying for the baby!
#CRADLEOFCIVILISATION
Collective consciousness... Our memory is a part of a memory pool where every human being's memory is kept.
60,000 year old flute. There is no way a carnivore made those holes by chance. If it is true that Neanderthal had music and art we have to reevaluate everything we think we know about our mysterious cousins.
Jim Walker no you're wrong. It was like a hyena that chewed it
Jacks ASMR What university do you work at as a musical paleontologist? Have you published your findings? I am very interested in your empirical work providing evidence that supports your hypothesis. I am especially interested in your explanation on how a hyena chewing on a bone created an instrument that follows a musical scale.
Jim Walker I don't work at a university, I'm 13. I believe in evolution but I have been doing research on my hypothesis and they found that homoneanderthalensis didn't play this "instrument". Plus I don't go to a university, I'm only 13, but I'm studying to be either a palioanthropologist or an anthropologist
Jacks ASMR Ahhh, I was hoping to get some definitive analysis. So the jackal thing is just your hypothesis.
Jim Walker Jim Walker watch the video called worlds oldest music by national geographic I think. There is also many other videos about it. And it's a hyena
Music has always been magical
Hurrain hymn no .6: I’m da oldest song ever
This song: hold my bones and rocks
instrument, not music
Well the hurrian hymn is the oldest discovered musical piece, where the notes and rhythm were carved. But here the flute player is just playing possible tunes which have a melody in them, thus 'music'
Born too late to explore earth
Born too early to explore space
But I was born just in time to experience this
And at the right time to eat Fettuccini Alfredo before humans move to protein pills.
Well, you could have experienced this from 300000 ac to 100000 ac
I am speach less.
Hearing sounds of a musical instrment dating back 60000 years.
TheGolfdaily it wasn't actually an instrument idiot
Jacks ASMR
Ok, since I am an idiot and you are not, could you kindly define what is an instrument please?
TheGolfdaily all I'm saying is do more reasearch first and they reconstructed it wrong
@@Why1236 Why don't you provide the research then big brain? If you're going to make a claim then provide evidence.
Cessatio Lux fucking hell how desperate are you?? That comment was over 2 years ago
Literally it's scary to hear a flute created by an extinct human species
One day our instruments will be all that’s left
With a bone of an extinct animal too
I can just imagine a lone Neanderthal hunter playing this melody in the brisk mountains of ice age Europe.
Better
Well Neanderthals lived jn small groups
@@noobiamyes4853 Yeah but "lone" does so much for the vibe, don't you think?
@@viperblitz11 ye
Imagine the instrument having a practical use, with each tribe having a bonespeaker and the bonespeakers using a set of signals to announce where they were, so that tribes could interact, trade, intermarry, etc without having to live all in 1 place.
Man I miss these instruments, my buddy Ohgahk was pretty talented on one of these, those were the good ol' days
I remember being with him in class. Granite High, i believe? Good ol days
Imagine being around when actual music was invented
Holy fuckkk
These people nowadays think they're all fancy whenever the new phone comes out. While the Neanderthals roll in their graves and say "asshole, I made the concept of cool."
@@tinobemellow
"Kill any cave bears lately?"
@@gangrenousgandalf2102 "What about their legs..? They don't need those.."
These lyrics popped into my head upon hearing that flute:
Chief Bangaboo, a Neanderthal who... heard the call of war
He lived in France, wore bearskin pants....
Sixty-thousand years ago, says folklore....
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Reminds me of a WW 1 era song mom used to sing with similar words, but not about Neanderthals, that also began with the words "Chief Bangaboo."...from the 1918 era or so, I've heard her say long ago.
You are a Genius
Nah chief oogakeef made this beat its fire
Such a haunting melody, it's appropriate, I feel like a terribly sad yet silent event happened, a time long gone and a people lost to time only remembered through things found not memory of life shared. A species like ourselves walking heads hung into the darkness of time . I wish I could for a brief moment find those wandering people and tell them we haven't forgotten you, we remember you, and we miss you.
This is very beautiful. Thank you.
A unique and eerie sound, I like it
This is mind blowing. I always hoped, and thought, that music might have played a vital role in the enlightenment of mankind, as it is SO, important in my life, and features in every culture in some form or other, as far as recorded history goes. This seems to verify this, which is to me a major break through in understanding our origins!
Keith Wells it wasn't even an instrument
@@Why1236 Yeah I know. Instrument is scalpel to use him to open your scull to see if you have brains in?
@@Why1236 It is most certainly an instrument. a freaking TRIANGLE is an instrument.
0:28
you could say this kinda music is
bear-bones
Comedy gold
Comedy bone
They need to produce these. I would love to learn how to play this. it's hauntingly beautiful
+Dara Fox Actually Ljuben Dimkaroski does produce them. He himself makes them.
I mean for sale
I would totally buy one
i mean they WERE but sadly, the creator Gorgablonk Grugmin died abouuut 59964 years ago
you could make one yourself. if a Neanderthal could do it with some sharpened rocks, i'm sure you could do it with the help of industrial society.
Man I was born in the wrong fucking generation. This is real music.
+Pierre As a student of music, I'm also pretty enamoured of primitive tribal type music. You might want to check out some didgeridoo music.
If you were born in that generation, you would have likely died at the age of 3.
Disappointed Turtle good.
+Adrien maybe you'd learn
+Disappointed Turtle: Would have been a better three years than your crummy 21st century life.
I want to see a video game with this type of instrument being played for the soundtrack. Sounds so beautiful, like someone is whistling.
I’m pretty sure civilization 6 has a bit of it in it’s soundtrack
That is because someone is whistling. The sound doesn't arrive from the so called 'flute'....
The caveman’s spirit is watching this right now and absolutely appalled at how this guy actually sucks at playing his bone flute.
Incredible to think of a time, tens of thousands of years ago, when that eerie sound was first made!
Tim Strah it wasn't even an instrument mate. It was just a chewed up cave bear leg bone that was chewed by a hyena
I bump this hard, when I'm painting caves.
This place is in my country, Slovenia, and this music is magic and somewhere deep inside us
So slovenia is the Creator of Music?
If there was a place where the last of a dying species could hold out and survive in the mountains against a superior rival for thousands of years, that place would probably be the Balkans.
The melodies and compositions played were haunting, but I think the first musician ever to play this flute would probably have played lighter ditties containing imitations of birdsong and other natural sounds. It would be fascinating to hear the music these distant part-ancestors of ours would have played all those millennia ago.
I agree, I think making such melancholic music would be a bit counter productive, unless they were mourning a death or something similar.
Life was tough, music would be used mostly as a tool for creating joy, I'd imagine.
Mimicking birdsong, making rudimentary compositions, simply providing a backdrop for your tribe mates to break into song with.
More pleasant than Justin Beiber.
Damn bru, comments like this really age a video
In their times this had to be magic.
It could be used as such. Imagine if the Thals had used these flutes to coordinate an ambush on the numerically superior Cros when they tried to invade and take their land. If the Cros had not figured out similar technology yet the attack would seem to come completely out of nowhere, warriors appearing on all sides like evil spirits, wipe up nearly all of a Cro invasion force, and then depart as quickly as they'd come.
If that happens a few times the flutes themselves might deter Cro raids.
@@hagamapama Though I suspect flutes with holes to produce different notes were more likely used in rituals and leisure for tribal bonding, I wouldn't rule out the usage of whistles to coordinate hunts, and yes, including hunts on hostile human groups if there were any around. We don't really know how prevalent these clashes were, and it's definetly long before the times of organized warfare. Humans were very scarce in Europe at the time and they mostly had cave bears and sabertooth tigers to fight, and the genetic record seems to show that they were more likely to interbreed and share culture rather than doing regular racial genocides. It can't be ruled out though, and I'm pretty sure it happened, even if not too often.
Similar effect to what you describe was achieved by the gaul with the use of carnyx, they'd use it during combat and soon it imprinted itself in the roman psychology as the sound of death. They would then for example torture the legionnaries by playing it night and day non stop in the vicinity of their camp, driving some soldiers insane.
@@TrollDragomir I admit that's what I'm basing my theory off. I think it's a very, very, very old idea.
Also remember that the Romans did the same thing with horns. And nearly everyone used drums in some fashion.
Using music to communicate in combat is extremely time tested.
Man i remember this 35 year old man playing something like this and it blasted the charts! 300000 years does come and go real fast
Ye ot do ve fa
About 60k years later, this music is still legendary
metal af
Badum tss
You mean boney af
This is beautiful and haunting. I makes me happy that a bit of them lives on in Europeans and Asians.
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And North Africans and Somalians
this is giving racism 🥲
Asians and European have high neanderthal dna
This song is hauntingly beautiful. There’s something odd about it that makes it seem natural, seem beautiful in a way.
Just imagine living thousands of years ago. It gives me the chills.
I just imagined how they sat around fire and one of them said "dj play that shit!".
But this really makes u think about how they sat together and played the flute. Amazing
I think that the second song at 1:31 is the most authentic that we can get if this was a real instrument, as it is mocking animal sounds (it's not a classical piece or a folk tune). We will never know though.
2010:magical and mysterious flute!
2022 incredible memes: I can milk you!
The visual of these haunting tunes against the background of the mountains of Europe, and within the walls of an ancient cave, is a beautiful and haunting sight. Just imagine striding through the ancient landscape of the Ice Age, on a rare warm morning, and suddenly from some place hidden in the hills, you hear the unmistakable sound of manmade music. Simply beautiful.
Just something about this I listen to it every night. Just imagine living 60,000 years ago. Blows my mind. What was life like? Nature? The earth's climate? Idk it's all just wild to me
It was the ice age
The sahara used to be a giant jungle and half of europe didn't had trees (frozen)
The warmest parts of the earth were usually no hotter than 20c
@@orenjisalmonpaw Sahara was more like a giant meadow than a jungle.
I don't believe the Earth to be 60,000 years old but 6 or 5 thousand is very ver old
@@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317 Earth has millions of years.
@@basilissck I know most people believe that
The visual reconstruction at the start of the vid is so good
Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear the songs that a Neanderthal would have played on the flute? A play-off between a Neanderthal and Ljuben Dimkaroski would be so wonderful!!
The first piece reminded me of the music from "The double lives of Veronique," a terrific film.
It should also be noted that there isn't a consensus among archeologists and anthropologists as to "who" made the flute. It was dubbed the "Neanderthal Flute" by Ivan Turk, who unearthed it in 1995, but it remains unclear whether it was made by Neanderthals, or Early-Modern-Humans, given that both are known to have inhabited sub-glacial Europe at the proposed time(approx. 43,000 BC).
If the dating is correct, it would be Neanderthals as the new dating is roughly 60,000 years old.
This feels nostalgic for some reason.
Excellent. Keep it up and let the moderns know that music is older than themselves.
1:40 - prehistoric mcdonalds
1:41
No joke, I heard the McDonald whistle
Ba da da da da daaa I’m singin’ it
Listening to the music played on a replica of that simple ancient flute by a talented musician is awe inspiring. The range of sound is unbelievable, the tunes were easily recognizable. Just think about it... what kind of beautiful music did its neandertal owner make with it? I wish I could go back in time to hear it.
the neanderthals weren't stupid brutes they made music to
Because you were told that?
20alphabet lmao europeans became europeans thanks to homo sapiens from the saharas? Give me a break
Oscar Stenberg
I said that? Good grief, whatever you're smoking is what I want!
Poor guy, you're lost.
20alphabet lol sure
An instrument created so long ago for someone's amusement and it's still able to play our songs of today. How amazing. We should be glad for the tiny space of time we are allotted on this earth. Make the most of it.
Not sure it was a toy or amusement. People forget that music was a tool of communication. In those ancient times music was advanced technology. It could allow communication at greater distances than the human voice.
When you're carrying your life on your back you don't have time for amusements. But you do have time for tools that can help you survive. If ancient nomads carried this thing around, it was because it was useful, not just fun.
If I'm right, there was a traditionally agreed upon set of signals used by Neanderthal tribes to speak to each other outside of spearthrowing range The flute could be a technology used for diplomacy between tribes announcing an intention to fight, trade or socialize, or a warning to the other tribe to leave them alone.
That would make it practical to have a few people in the tribe who knew how to use them. And then would be a good reason to enjoy them for fun because they gotta practice.
2:27 when you go back 60,000 years ago and teach Neanderthals to play ode to joy
Remember kids, You need to thank the Cave bear for making music a thing
Simply beautiful! I wonder what the melodies of the time were?
Wondering about that too! I imagine it is totally different than what we hear in the video. Even human music was very different in the medival era, much more monotone drone sounding with only the pentatonic scale for instance, at a certain time. But perhaps the Neanderthalers were much more advanced musically than us so who knows what their music sounded like. Seems they must have been pretty advanced.
I think they would be imitating the sounds of animals, birds most likely.
This kinda makes me think how much beautiful art and music we've lost over the course of history.
Imagine playing with a bone and realizing it makes sounds
Probably more like chewing on the bone of a bird or animal that you hunted or trapped, or found and ate for food and then sucking and blowing out the nutrient rich marrow, which would make a sound. Then you need the brains to work out what makes different sounds, and then pick out which sounds sound right together and how to achieve all of the above. It’s actually a very high level of sophistication, but yeah at the start it was a bone and a sound.
@@misterbeans6064 And the reason it stuck around was because two different tribes might figure it out at the same time and then realize they could use it to talk to each other at long distance.
I firmly believe that the first musicians were communicators. you can hear a flute at a much greater distance than you can make out a human voice.
Two tribes spot each other at a distance in the mountain pass, their paths lie through each other. Without long range communication they have no idea if they were seeing a friend or enemy. Misunderstandings could easily spring up that fatally weakened one or both tribes. So the chiefs summon their musicians.
One tribe's musician pipes a challenge to the other who after a moment's hesitation to confer with his chief, replies with a traditionally agreed-upon countercall. there will be no war. We will be friends today. The two tribes come together to trade, socialize and interbreed, then continue on their way, perhaps with some from each tribe joining a new mate in the other. And nobody gets hurt as long as everyone knows the code.
the sadness of this sound .... OMFG
I love it it's almost hunting music but just enough magic to enchant you AMAZING
Shout out to the guy who went back in time to the stone ages to record this
Why do people assume that only 1 of these was played at a time? Imagine a group of 3 with skin drums and a singer/chanter.
Being of the Mr. Incredible meme, this flute from 40,000 BCE is the oldest thing to be made into a meme. Change my mind. No seriously. If you found something older than this that was made into a meme, I’d like to know.
@d3dt3k
It took some time to get a precise answer to your question. Now here it is:
A potpourri of fragments from compositions of various authors has been selected, to show the capabilities of the instrument, tonal range, staccato, legato, glissando ...
The list of 8 fragments is however too long for the limit of RUclips comment answers, so I have appended it to the description of the video (Neanderthal Bone Flute Music), shown below its picture.
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Primoz Jakopin
I note that the instrument closely mimics human whistling, in tone and pitch. It is said that, among classical performers, instruments are often ranked by how much they mimic he human voice. It is also said that the larynx of the Neanderthal is located high in the throat and would produce a high pitched sound, much like this flute. You may be on to something here. Would they not tune their flutes to something approaching their own voices, if only to accompany singers? The thing about whistling is, it requires a highly flexible tongue and lips as well as some knowledge of air flow and modulation, which you would also need for speech! but, not everybody can whistle well and so a flute could cover that desire. Just a thought.
@@fredwood8158 Interesting idea. Makes perfect sense.
Remember when farming wasn't a thing? The good days...
:D bahahaha OMG the tone! This is priceless, it must have been difficult to learn this prehistoric instrument; but I'd imagine the Neanderthals had bigger lungs, so they must have produced a far different tone.
It's basically an ancient precursor to the ocarina.
1:41 even the cavemen were able to play the McDonald's jingle
McDonald's burger with Mammoth meat freshly made
There's something both chilling and comforting in listening to him play
Something about it never gets old
ive been eaten 15 grams of psychedlic truffles, and wow!!!! this music is such an experience!!! i need like a 6 hour version of this
2019:avengers theme music
3019:this video
Haunting and beautiful.
The scale is a bit weird, but that is usual for really old instruments. I wish that someone could improvise on a copy of that flute, and a frame drum too..
featuring Pitbull
Mr. Worldwideeeee
I’m just imaging a neantherdal blowing into a bone and going like “yo this shit slaps.”
OMG I have this as my favourite song on my Stonify playlist on my iBone!
Cool. I have got to start forcing myself to read the vid description more often. lol Man, music in the stone age is exciting to think about.
It is haunting and beautiful, but I also suspect this interpretation is far too tinny than how it would have originally sounded. I suspect it would have been a gentler and more beautiful sound. Even modern apes enjoy the beauty of music and enjoy more beautiful music than just any music. They can feel the difference between some beautiful flute music of Mozart and some kind of garage band screaming punk rock (nothing against punk rock, just against bad punk rock). And so, over time, I am sure the Neanderthal would have arrived at beautiful and gentle tones.
Some people say it's haunting to listen to music so old and ancient, I think what's really haunting is that these people felt and had emotions like the rest of us and they are so long dead that no one remembers them, and none of their family survived, except those that bred with homosapiens, truly scary to be so forgotten about and misunderstood.
what also crossed my mind is what is like to be the last of the neanderthal? idk but it's also haunting
Ode to Joy on a thousands-year-old flute. Humanity has now come full-circle. My life is complete.
"You still listen to music from 10 years ago?" Try 60,000 And technically not originally by human hands
love how the recording is done in the cave - so glad the playing of the flute was allowed; strange to hear it put to "our" more modern music. I prefer the animal sounds and haunting ethereal sounds of spirit. I have a beautiful double barrel flute that accompanies me on sacred journeys! Thanks to videographers, musicians, and all archeologists and film makers
mr incredible becoming old
flute is most beautiful instrument in my personal world
Que emocionante que nuestros antepasados pudieran crear un instrumento donde puedan expresar sus sentimientos, magistralmente interpretado por este artista, me conmueve profundamente.