While you’re not looking

The sound of the old­est musi­cal instru­ment resem­bles greatly of a pan flute. It is a flute indeed, made out of bone, dated back 35,000 years ago dur­ing the colonis­ing of Europe. Three of these arte­facts were unearthed in the Hohle Fels cav­ern, south-west of Germany.

This dis­cov­ery have proven that:

Music could have con­tributed
to the main­te­nance of larger
social net­works, and thereby per­haps have helped facil­i­tate
the demo­graphic and ter­ri­to­r­ial expan­sion of mod­ern humans rel­a­tive to a cul­tur­ally more con­ser­v­a­tive and demo­graph­i­cally more iso­lated Nean­derthal populations…

Source: BBC News