Atleast 35,000 years ago, in depths of the last ice age, the sound of music filled a cave in what is now south western Germany, the same place and time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of figurative art in the world. Music and sculpture are the expressions of artistic creativity, it seems were emerging in tandem among some of the first modern humans when they began spreading through Europe or seen thereafter. Archaeologists reported the discovery last fall of a bone flute and two fragments of ivory flutes that they said represented the earliest known flowering of music-making in Stone Age culture. They said the bone flute with five finger holes, found at Hohle Fels cave in the hills west of Ulm, was by far the most complete of the musical instruments so far recovered from the caves in a region where pieces of other flutes have been turning up in recent years.
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