Remains of large mammals from Divje Babe I its stratigraphy, taxonomy and biometry. A taphonomic study of wild wolf (Canis lupus) modification on horse bones in Northwestern Spain. (6) Selected femur fragments of cub to subadult cave bears (U. s. eremus and U. s. Rose’s poems have appeared in many online and print journals, including Anon, Anti-, The Dark Horse, and The … ‘bone flute holes’ (composed and adapted from [4,14,15,22,23]; illustrations G. Teichmann). figure 2). Microscopic analysis (cf. [24], this indeed would be abnormal for hyenas to try to crush longbones with their canine teeth. Those indeed also left, in some cases, round–oval, larger punctures in cave bear bones, but with their canines only in soft spongiosa (pelvis, vertebrae), and never in any bone shaft compacta. The Divje Babe flute is believed to be one of the earliest examples of a musical instrument. The bone crusher of longbones was only the Ice Age spotted hyena, which produced round/oval puncture marks on cave bear cub bones by the bone crushing premolar teeth, i.e. tooth with rubbed or damaged tip or slight impact (PAL collection). punctured cave bear cub femora), and overlap of Late Palaeolithic Aurignacian camp sites at the cave entrances, or cave bear hunt signs deep in caves. Carnivore puncture holes in cave bear skulls, jaws and postcranial bones caused by top predator canine teeth (lions, leopards, hyenas and wolves), but are mainly products at longbones and lower jaws of the premolar cracking teeth of hyenas (cf. []; figure 1).In this cave, cave bear … Figure 2. Those are the most important to understand their hyena tooth mark impact origin, because those can be attributed well to the upper and lower jaw antagonistic bone crushing premolar teeth (figures 5(1–6), 6(10) and 7(1)). Paleolitska koščena piščalka iz Divijih Bab I. First, from the literature available, ‘bone flutes’ were compiled and reinterpreted herein with new drawings (figure 5 and table 1). (7) Many selected femur fragments of subadult to adult cave bears (U. s. eremus and U. s. Evolution, Horste, Taphonomie und Prädatoren der Rübeländer Höhlenbären, Harz (Norddeutschland). Hyenas left bones in repeating similar tooth mark and crush damage stages, demonstrating a butchering/bone cracking strategy. In a first stage, one of the joints (damage stage 1), and in a second step (damage stage 2) the other joint was cut off using the scissor-dentition on very small-sized femora (figure 5(1)), which becomes more diagonal (i.e. (i.e. (1) Cub skull (small cave bear form U. spelaeus eremus) from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany, which was scavenged strongly on the left side. [32,33,37,41]), whereas X-ray scans did not prove any ‘drill-scratches around the holes’ or any marks of stone tools on the bones, and left again the question of the hole origin open (cf. Divje Babe is the oldest known archaeological site in Slovenia. The figured ‘bone flutes’ of Divje Babe Cave 1, Mokriška Jama Cave and all other Slovenian ‘pseudo-bone flutes’ are housed in the National Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Hungary (NMLS). The Oase Cave material was studied in the Speleological Institute Emil Racovita. At least, very correctly, the ‘holes’ were mostly discussed to be of ‘carnivore chewing damage’ origin (cf. Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) remains from the Balve Cave (NW Germany)—a cave bear, hyena den and Middle Palaeolithic human cave, and review of the Sauerland Karst lion sites. The dentition is very heterodont in those specialized mammals (cf. This is known due to lack of breakage on most of the cave bear cub femora, which generally show additional diagonal zigzag margins (from chewing joints by scissor teeth of hyenas) or have triangular or smaller scratch tooth marks. Enter your email address below and we will send you the reset instructions. On the suggested bone flute from Slovenia. And amidst all the noise, voices get lost and some stories are never heard. A skull cap was first discovered, followed by two femurs, five arm bones, part of the left pelvis, and fragments of a shoulder blade and ribs. (13–14) Cub and adult calcanei from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany (all PAL collection). The pseudo-bone flutes all come from layers of the MIS3–5d (herein added up to MIS 6) and are from smaller early cave bear forms of Ursus spelaeus subsp. Carnivore puncture holes in cave bear skulls, jaws and postcranial bones caused by top predator canine teeth (lions, leopards, hyenas and wolves), but are mainly products at longbones and lower jaws of the premolar cracking teeth of hyenas (cf. Mokriška jama, nova visokoalpska aurignaška postaja v Jugoslaviji. For some the results are not that surprising. Subadult cave bear femora initially flaked (femur from Hermann's Cave, Germany). This was already contradictory to the results of the archaeological inventory that is well acceptably declared to be solely of, again, Cro-Magnon human Late Palaeolithic origin, and not of Mousterian (cf. Studied and from literature compiled cave bear, hyena, wolf den sites with pseudo-bone flutes (i.e. [7]). [13,20,21]), and ‘cave bear bone flutes’ would have been, if such, from modern human layers, in all cases. I guess that it's not surprising that there's rather a lot of uncertainty regarding Neanderthal artifacts. In total, holes are ventral (7×), dorsal (3×) and in five cases on both sides. Such antagonistic tooth marks are found often at different medium-sized hyena prey bones including their own species femora or even Neanderthal femora [19,20], also documented in the modern actualistic spotted hyena bone accumulation record [61–63]. Using all these strange presentations by Turk et al. Hyenas left, therefore, ‘pseudo-bone flutes’ during the Late Middle to Late Pleistocene all over Europe in cave bear dens, and on different cave bear species/subspecies. Doubts aired over Neandertal bone ‘flute’. That’s especially true of our planet’s countless wild species: big and small, threatened and persecuted, complex and fascinating. In 1996, excavation of a Neanderthal cave site in northwestern Slovenia uncovered, what appears to be, the section of a transverse flute made from the femur bone of a young bear. In two cases, old breakages are demonstrated on refitted femur shafts of cubs (figure 6(10–11)), and one subadult/adult shaft (figure 7(5)); in all cases the fragments have even different colours and were embedded after crushing in different sediment types/layers. Such mandibles were crushed always similar with damaging the ramus, or flakes of the lower distal mandible. A hyena tried to cut the distal joint. Late Pleistocene leopards across Europe—most northern European population, highest elevated records in the Alps, complete skeletons in the Dinarids and comparison to the Ice Age cave art. The study, authored by paleobiologist Cajus Diedrich and published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, examined prehistoric animal remains and bone breakage patterns in 15 cave locations in an effort to put the longstanding flute debate to rest. The bone crusher of longbones was only the Ice Age spotted hyena, which produced round/oval puncture marks on cave bear cub bones by the bone crushing premolar teeth, i.e. [1]; figure 1). Puncture holes are produced by canines (in cranium), whereas the breakage of the left mandible is the result of hyena premolar cracking teeth. (1) Cub skull (small cave bear form U. spelaeus eremus) from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany, which was scavenged strongly on the left side. Les flûtes paléolithiques: Divje Babe I, Stállóskö, Lokve etc. Almost all prehistoric bone flutes come from a time in prehistory associated with post-Neanderthal activity, however the Divje Babe flute from Slovenia suggests both that Palaeolithic people were aware of music, but also that they used the same diatomic scale that we use today. By B. Bower. [24]), which attributed possible ‘holes’ to ‘canines’, which was contradictory to several arguments by Turk et al. (7–11) Cub tibiae from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany. Stages of cave bear femur destruction by Ice Age spotted hyena. Figure 1. This would be a great way to strengthen the argument, but it also is true because if the opposite of it were true” time travelers have gone back in time and watched Neanderthals use the bone for some other purpose or to play only two notes with the flute” it would provide helpful information for the Bad … Figure 6. Indeed, some are naturally weather-cracked. General cave bear bone damage by large carnivores (lion, hyena, wolf) is present in all of those large cave bear dens. The ‘cave bear cub femora with holes’ are, in all cases, neither instruments nor human made at all. (a) Lateral outer view, (b) lateral inner view, (c–e) details of puncture holes of both sides and (f) refitting of the jaw with all tooth marks of both sides projected in one level which fit in one tooth mark of the bone crushing teeth of the upper jaw of a hyena (all PAL collection).Download figureOpen in new tabDownload powerPoint. According to Nowell, this new research will help to “dismantle a myth that has been too persistent in some circles. The prize for the first creators of musical instruments actually goes to members of the Aurignacian culture of southwest Germany. When he’s not watching YouTube videos of cats playing the piano, you can find him foraging in the wild or hammering on a set of drums. The secon… Jewelry, musical instruments and exotic objects from the Hungarian Palaeolithic. Late Middle to Late Pleistocene (Mousterian to Gravettian) Ice Age spotted hyenas of Europe occupied mainly cave entrances as dens (communal/cub raising den types), but went deeper for scavenging into cave bear dens, or used in a few cases branches/diagonal shafts (i.e. In August 1856 the specimen that was to become known as Neanderthal 1 was discovered in the Neander Valley, Germany. All ‘cave bear cub femora bone flute’ sites failed to date into the ‘Neanderthal times’ because all are not of Neanderthal (Middle Palaeolithic) human, but are instead from modern human Aurignacian occupations in ‘archaeological layers’ at entrances of cave bear dens, cf. This main Late Pleistocene bone destructor in Europe is known recently with more than 150 den sites (95% are cave sites) all over Europe. As is now well known, Aurignacian humans lived in Europe together with the last and largest cave bear species U. ingressus [16,18,21,23,58,59]. Puncture holes are produced by canines (in cranium), whereas the breakage of the left mandible is the result of hyena premolar cracking teeth. Die Pleistozäne Höhlenfundstelle Potočka Zijalka. figures 2 and 3). The comparison focused on the presence/absence and positions of round–oval puncture marks. The bone was clearly fashioned by man - no other … Adult femora have no puncture marks, because those directly flaked into pieces.Download figureOpen in new tabDownload powerPoint. and U. ingressus) cub femora: (1–7) puncture, (8–9) part-flake, (10–14) full breakage-flakes—all with puncture holes or half preserved holes after splitting in flakes—of different aged cave bear cub femora (less than 1 year individual age) and different species (U. s. eremus and U. ingressus)—all from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany (PAL collection). Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username. ‘Pseudo-bone flutes’ are not in Middle Palaeolithic archaeological, but of Late Palaeolithic and cave bear den context with large carnivore influence. [64]). Withering away—25000 years of genetic decline preceded cave bear extinction. A study in Royal Society Open Science says that so called 'Neanderthal bone flutes' are no more than the damaged bones of cave bear cubs left by scavengers during the Ice Age. [1,7,9], or deeper in caves due to cave bear hunt [23]. Bone Flutes and Whistles - These are also an old style of flute made by ancient people of the American Southwest. There are further arguments for the hyena origin on longbone shaft punctures found similar to radius and tibia cub shafts which are similar to femur shaft cross section, but stronger in their compacta in this animal age stage (figure 4). ‘Neanderthal bone flutes’: simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens. The punctures/tooth impact marks are often present on both sides of the shaft of cave bear cub femora and are simply a result of non-breakage of the slightly calcified shaft compacta. Die oberpleistozäne Population von Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 aus dem eiszeitlichen Fleckenhyänenhorst Perick-Höhlen von Hemer (Sauerland, NW Deutschland). Todkopf calls it a "Neanderthal tuba." Razprave IV. This area is thinner in the compacta than the dorsal one. (4) Femur from Divje Babe Cave 1—‘the Neanderthal bone flute holotype’, Slovenia (photos from NMLS collection). [6]). (1–4) Cub humeri from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany. Therefore, there is no evidence for a Neanderthal (Mousterian) context and the cave bear remains, which even occur in several older and younger Late Pleistocene layers (cf. also modern hyena impact mark pictures in [61]), (b) the margins are convex in cross-shape, and not steep-straight as with drills, (c) the corners are smooth and do not have drill/cut mark signs, at all, and (d) in most cases (figures 5–7), the antagonistic punctures/tooth marks (lower/upper jaw dentition fit) are present. and U. ingressus) longbones (humerus, radius, tibia) and pelvic and pedal bones by top predator (lions, leopards, hyenas and wolves) canine and mainly premolar hyena teeth. There are two things we can all agree on, though: we hope someday to uncover the true origin of the Divje Babe bone flute, and musical instruments certainly rank among the greatest inventions of members of the genus Homo. and U. ingressus) cub femora (less than 1 year individual age) from various European large cave bear den sites. [69], those seem to exclude even cannibalism within U. a. arctos. (a) Lateral outer view, (b) lateral inner view, (c–e) details of puncture holes of both sides and (f) refitting of the jaw with all tooth marks of both sides projected in one level which fit in one tooth mark of the bone crushing teeth of the upper jaw of a hyena (all PAL collection). Stages of cave bear femur destruction by Ice Age spotted hyena. (5–6) Cub radi from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany. Cave bear bones and archaeological layers are therefore not exactly isochronous in several cases (even mixed due to possibly bioturbation by cave bears building their nests, or burrowing porcupines or digging Ice Age spotted hyenas; cf. definitions and discussions in [4,14,18–20,20,21,54,74]. New Evidence for cave bear hunting from Potočka Zijalka Cave, Slovenia. Cave bear skeleton and wild boar skull from the cave of Mokriška jama. I thank for the study support of material from Sophie's Cave Mrs S. Dess. The number of holes, he says, … Tooth mark types, shapes and especially their positions on both sides of the shaft ends, or the middle part, were identified as the antagonistic upper and lower jaw tooth marks of hyenas. Cave bear killers, scavengers between the Scandinavian and Alpine ice shields—the last hyenas and cave bears in antagonism—and the reason why cave bears hibernated deeply in caves. German sites are Hermann's Cave, Perick Caves, especially a large population of small (Ursus spelaeus eremus) and large cave bears (Ursus ingressus) and large amount of material in different destruction stages from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, but also some relevant bones from the den sites Keppler Cave, Zoolithen Cave, Sophie's Cave, Große Teufels Cave and the Czech Sloup Cave. Bone Flutes: (Form and Function:) Bone flutes are one of the oldest known deliberately made musical instruments. In stage 3, subadult cave bear femora already started to crush, which is demonstrated from at least one example from Hermann's Cave (figure 5(6)). figure 2). A critical re-evaluation on bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore interactions through a multivariate approach: application to the FLK Zinj archaeofaunal assemblage (Olduvai George, Tanzania). : X-ray computed microtomography of the Divje Babe flute. (a) Dorsal, (b) lateral, (c) detail of tooth mark hole (GTCP collection). indicator of absence of hyenas in alpine regions, and proof of holes made only by hyenas which are found only in middle high elevated mountain regions [19]). Divje Babe I. One more argument for the holes to be of hyena origin (or carnivore tooth mark in general) are the tooth mark hole margins. (6) Femur from Hermann's Cave, Germany (photos adapted from [16]; RC collection). These flutes require some technique to be able to play. These instruments are easy to play. Potočka zijalka: visokoalpska postaja aurignacienskih lovcev (Potočka zijalka—eine hochalpine Aurignacienjäger-Station). U. s. eremus, U. s. spelaeussensu taxonomy of Stiller et al. Hyenas produced round–oval puncture marks in cub femora only by the bone-crushing premolar teeth of both upper and lower jaw. There are never signs of ‘drill marks on the margins of the compacta’, and in many cases there are breakages around the hole (i.e. Which hyena (lion and wolf) teeth are responsible for what kind of tooth marks and bone damage on cave bear bone femora and other few selected cranial and postcranial material is refigured composed of several studies [18–22] (figure 2). Five cheetahs versus a brown hyena? The final proof of holes in femur shafts comes from the crushed and flaked specimens (figure 6(8–14)), which are documented herein for the first time within a cave bear den. partly with spiral breakage, and tooth mark impact marks on the surfaces from the Perick Caves, Germany (PCH collection). [4,16,18,23]; cf. The flute is thought to have been fashioned from the femur or a cave bear. [24]). This bone fragment was perforated with four round holes whose shape and alignment strongly suggested that it was, indeed, the remnant of a Neanderthal wind instrument. figures 5 and 6, and e.g. diagonal cut) with increasing femur sizes (figures 5–7). Well, maybe not. Therefore, all other top predators—except hyenas—can be excluded, at least for the round–oval punctures in cave bear longbone shafts. Brodar [8] reported cave bear cub femora and other cave bear bones ‘with holes’ as further proof of the ‘oldest instruments in the world’ from the Mokriška Jama Cave (or Medvedja Jama Cave=Bear Cave), Slovenia. (1) Femur from Mokriška Jama Cave, Slovenia (photos adapted from [24]; NMLS collection). This was a smaller cave bear and Ice Age spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) carnivore den which overlaps with another Aurignacian camp site, but again, it has no Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal occupation signs (cf. Biomechanically the bone shaft (nearly conical cross section) cracks because of pressure on three sides (crushing triangle premolars). In 1995, archeologist Ivan Turk of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts found the approximately 43,100-year-old cave bear femur at the Divje Babe site near a Mousterian hearth. ", Budding naturalist and bird nerd, Ian holds the digital fort at Earth Touch. This unusual musical instrument, neither a flute nor a whistle, was cemented near the remains of a 50,000 – 60,000 years old Neanderthal fire pit, made from the thigh bone of a young cave bear into which the Neanderthal drilled three holes and made a sharpened rim for the mouthpiece using tools made of bone and stone. Jelle Atema is a Professor of Biology and Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It's possible that Neanderthals may still have got their groove on by clapping their hands or slapping their bodies (still better than modern pop music), but there is no evidence that they actually created musical instruments. partly with spiral breakage, and tooth mark impact marks on the surfaces from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany (PAL collection). From the literature, new interpretations were made of the sites in the archaeological content (Neanderthal versus Aurignacian sites), and overlap in carnivore den use (hyena/wolf den—always at entrance areas) and identification as small to large cave bear dens (figure 1 and table 1). With increasing calcification of the shaft compacta, spiral breakage and sometimes back flaking patterns occur. Indeed, neither hyenas, modern nor extinct, nor any carnivores mentioned use canines for ‘bone crushing’ (e.g. Critique de l'appréciation archéologique du spécimen no. Read Wikipedia in Modernized UI. (2) Proximally chewed and punctured femur joint of a subadult cave bear (U. s. spelaeus or U. ingressus) from the Weiße Kuhle Cave, Germany. [60]) and are very different also on the hole margins and forms. No contest. impact circles, cf. The material was found in a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf. 652 de Divje Babe I et arguments pour la défense des specimens pb51/20 et pb606 du MNM de Budapest. Cave bear at the Divje Babe I site: taphonomic-stratigraphics analysis. Oase Cave material was studied in the Institute Emil Racovita, Romania (IR). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License The five-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone. However, with the herein used Weiße Kuhle material being very representative for a large cave bear den, puncture holes are found in the cave bear cub humerus (4×), ulna (0×), radius (2×), femur (13×) and tibia (5×). At the shaft ends those vary more, and result from diagonal cuts, mainly. [3,12–21]; figures 1 and 2), where always large amounts of damaged and also punctured cave bear bones are present, such as figured with many new examples herein for the northern German Weiße Kuhle Cave and other cave bear dens (figures 3–7). I. Geology and palaeontology. H.-W. Weber (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Höhle und Karst Hemer e.V.) ribs, humeri and jaws) were compiled and studied by the ethnologist/musician Omerzel-Telep [11], without any natural science, nor palaeozoology background, especially the important ecology of cave bears and their predators/scavengers, non-human top predators of the Ice Age and the wide distribution of cave bear den caves in Europe (cf. Finally, also X-rays of the ‘bone flute’ hole margins did not verify any ‘drilling’ nor any stone tool work on the bone (cf. Studied and referred Late Pleistocene (MIS3–5d) European cave sites with ‘Palaeolithic cave bear pseudo-bone flutes’, and compared cave bear dens with hyena influence (hyena palaeobiogeography of 150 sites [4]).Download figureOpen in new tabDownload powerPoint. Figure 3. DOUBTS AIRED OVER NEANDERTHAL BONE 'FLUTE' (AND REPLY BY MUSICOLOGIST BOB FINK) Science News 153 (April 4, 1998): 215. Ist der Knochen eines Höhlenbären aus Divje Babe, Slowenien, eine Flöte des Neandertalers? [43]), who misidentified: (a) the site occupation by Neanderthals, as those of Aurignacians [28], (b) the bone, by rotating it upside down (see [44]), the 180° rotation of which is corrected herein (figure 5a), (c) the general bone taphonomy of cave bear bones, and (d) carnivore jaw functions, especially hyenas, correctly presented herein (figure 2). Research has said that a 'Neanderthal flute' found in Slovenia (shown) - believed to be the world's oldest musical instrument - is simply a bone chewed in a cave by a hyena 30,000 years ago. How to assess the acoustic significance of archaeological evidence. All cave bear pseudo-bone flutes are not dated to Neanderthal Middle Palaeolithic Mousterian layers, but instead, if possible to date, to Late Palaeolithic, Aurignacian/Gravettian layers. Figure 2. Ignoring the top predator bone damage on Ice Age animal bones, again the pseudo-bone flute was not only ‘confirmed’, even more bone flute finds were added by the same Slovenian author (cf. Also, possibly most herbivorous small U. s. eremus and full herbivorous U. ingressus (e.g. Using cave-bear bone accumulations to assess the Divje Babe I bone ‘flute’. The Late Pleistocene spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) population from the Zoolithen Cave at Gailenreuth (Bavaria, South Germany)—a hyena cub rising den of specialized cave bear scavengers in Boreal Forest environments of Central Europe. The research was sponsored by the Private Research Institute PaleoLogic (www.paleologic.eu), which runs the ‘European Ice Age spotted hyena project’. [25]; figure 5(4)), where also Neanderthal Mousterian layers were believed to be present [26], was declared twice incorrectly as the ‘oldest instrument’, a 43 140 BP old ‘Neanderthal flute’ from layer 8 [26,27] (figure 5(4)). Neanderthal flute: oldest musical instrument: matches notes of do, re, mi scale: musicological analysis. Niko Borish is a Teen Volunteer in the Education Department. At cave bear dens hyenas left, by periodic scavenging, up to 20% of damaged bones, whereas also lions (cave bear killers), leopards and wolves played a larger role in the cave bear hunting/scavenging, even deep in caves. [3,4,16,18–21,51,56]; figure 2). In some cases, these shafts expose, on both sides, puncture holes of each of the upper jaw P3 and antagonistic lower jaw P3–4, sometimes parts of M1, which attributes it only to the crushing teeth triangle of hyenas (cf. Herein, even more of such cave bear bones with holes can be added with focus only on the femora (figures 5–7), from German and Romanian cave bear den sites (therefore not limited to Slovenia at all, as mentioned by Turk et al. List of fossil faunal remains from Potočka zijalka (Slovenia). The amount of bone material is still not enough to present clear statistics. [22,61,67]; figure 2). 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