{"id":116,"date":"2013-10-09T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:50:48","slug":"bone-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/coverage\/global\/bone-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flauta_paleol%C3%ADtica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155\" alt=\"Bone flute dated in the Upper Paleolithic from Geissenkl\u00f6sterle, a german cave on the Swabian region. Replica.Jos\u00e9-Manuel Benito \u00c1lvarez. CC-BY-SA-2.5 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_BoneFLute_CC-BY-SA-25-300x75.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_BoneFLute_CC-BY-SA-25-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_BoneFLute_CC-BY-SA-25-700x175.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk2_BoneFLute_CC-BY-SA-25.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bone flute dated in the Upper Paleolithic from Geissenkl\u00f6sterle, a german cave on the Swabian region. Replica. Jos\u00e9-Manuel Benito \u00c1lvarez. CC-BY-SA-2.5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Music is ubiquitous in all societies today, yet it is often seen as a &#8220;luxury&#8221; by writers on human evolution and not as important as spoken language.\u00a0 Unlike those writers, we shall explore the functions music can play in societies today, and use such insights to evaluate the musical instruments that begin to appear in the archaeological record from 40,000 years ago.\u00a0 The surviving musical instruments are made of durable materials, such as bone and ivory, and tend to be found in groups at large archaeological sites.\u00a0 Their complexity indicates that we are missing earlier, less complex instruments.\u00a0 Rather than seeing music as a mere adornment to language, we shall explore how music can affect us physically, socially and emotionally, and assess the contexts in which the surviving instruments are found in that light.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Attenborough, D. 2000. The Song of the Earth. (Relevant section can be found at: <a title=\"YouTube - Bone Flute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P76eSsRKCac\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P76eSsRKCac<\/a>; 5 minutes into clip).<\/p>\n<p>d\u2019Errico, F., Henshilwood, C., Lawson, G., Vanhaeren, M., Tillier, A.-M., Soressi, M., Bresson, F., Maureille, B., Nowell, A., Lakarra, J., Backwell, L. &amp; Julien, M. 2003. Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music\u2014An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective, Journal of World Prehistory 17: 1-70 (esp. pp. 33-48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music is ubiquitous in all societies today, yet it is often seen as a &#8220;luxury&#8221; by writers on human evolution and not as important as spoken language.\u00a0 Unlike those writers, we shall explore the functions music can play in societies today, and use such insights to evaluate the musical instruments that begin to appear in the archaeological record from 40,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528801,146326,526930,527563,536536,543581,532795],"tags":[546321,66745,4057,546214,20920],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-15000-years-ago","category-global","category-lecture-3","category-making-us-human","category-music-and-desire","category-object","category-william-davies","tag-bone","tag-ivory","tag-language","tag-luxury","tag-music","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}