HOME CONTENTS CONTACT < “Prehistoric neighborhoods” Out of the book “Signs – Letters – Alphabets” by Csaba Varga To order the book see: www.createspace.com/3389848 1) A couple of years ago, in today’s France, archaeologists excavated two large Neanderthal sites that revealed signs of craftsmanship. Earlier than that, a tombstone erected by Neanderthal people was discovered – it had an ogham kind of sign carved on it. They buried their dead covered with flowers, the same way we do it these days. The mental capacities of the Neanderthal people can be especially well figured out with the help of this flute-fragment: A Ne anderthal man carv ed this approx. 43-82.000-year-old fl ute . Alt hou gh the flu te made of the bones of the cav e-bear is badly damaged, the position of the fragmented holes between the two intact holes can be easily discerned. And this is more than enough to claim that the flute is not tuned according to the natural pentatonic scale but a minor-version of the modern diatonic scale. Such a scale cannot be a twist of fate: it had to be created. (Even if it is the result of trial and error, decisions had to be made: “This is where the hole should be! ”) Bob Fink’s acoustic analysis follows in the next picture: The position of the holes determines the producible sounds. The above analysis shows that this flute could indeed emit brilliant melodies. Sure we are surprised that music has been with us since the Neanderthal man, but what is more astonishing is that these human beings actually based their music on an artificial scale. 2) The Canadian archaeologist Olga Schöffer found a complete wardrobe of women’s Clothing (80 pieces which are around 29,000 years old) at a location, which is t oday Czech republic. This means harvest, flax processing, weaving, measure units and manufacturing, not to mention the occasions they were made for. 3) In Iran a 2000 kilometres underground water channel about 10,000 years old. 4) The drawings above are on the same stone and were made more than 14.000 years ago. Generated with www.html-to-pdf.net Page 1 / 2