“Music was flourishing in Europe in 40,000BC – millennia before Beethoven or the Beatles. European’s earliest ancestors were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity more than 40,000 years ago, a study has shown. Evidence of the musicians was unearthed in Germany in the form of primitive flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory. A new system of fossil dating confirmed the age of animal bones excavated in the same rock layers as the instruments and examples of early art.” w/ photos
