May
04
/ 2016
One of the ancient technologies that is often overlooked is the creation of musical instruments. The purpose, development and in some cases the techniques used to develop music remains a mystery. Pythagoras was one of the first people to do a scientific study on the tones that seem to occur naturally in the world. And yet the use of the five tones of the pentatonic scale predates Pythagoras by millennia. High in the mountains around southwestern Germany, in an area known as Swabia, bone flutes were found in 2008 that have scientists rethinking when human creativity first showed up in history. Many of the bone flutes found around the world are made from the bones of birds. It may be
