This quote is from Randall White's "Prehistoric Art – the symbolic journey of humankind" (New York, Harry H. Abrams, 2003, p. 93): "Gravettian sites in Europe have provided large numbers of multiholed wind instruments, shown by experimentation to have served as flutes. Their sound qualities are quite haunting, and they show an equidistant scale. At one site alone, the cave of Isturitz in France, more than a dozen of these, often decorated with simple incisions, were found. Of course, we shall never know what Gravettian music was like, but we certainly have irrefutable evidence of its existence." The Gravettian period can be dated to some 22,000 to 28,000 years ago. But flutes have also been found in the preceding period, the Aurignacian, which flourished 28,000 to 40,000 years ago, and illustrations of both Aurignacian and Gravettian flutes can be found on pages 81 & 95 of White's book.
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