{"id":715,"date":"2023-02-20T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-60000-year-old-artefact-rewriting-neanderthal-history-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:15:13","slug":"the-60000-year-old-artefact-rewriting-neanderthal-history-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-60000-year-old-artefact-rewriting-neanderthal-history-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The 60,000-year-old artefact rewriting Neanderthal history \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHXV07YCGKY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1995, archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a unique perforated bone in the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia. The artefact was found in the middle of a palaeolithic layer of earth, near the remains of a Neanderthal fire place, stone and bone tools.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive experimental research confirmed that the holes in the bone were hand-made and that the bone was likely a neanderthal flute, between 50,000 to 60,000 years old. This makes it the world\u2019s oldest musical instrument and an object that could re-write our assumptions about the fundamental humanity of our Neanderthal cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Martina \u017doldo\u0161<br \/>\nCommissioning Editor: Cagney Roberts<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews #history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EHXV07YCGKY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a unique perforated bone in the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia. The artefact was found in the middle of a palaeolithic layer of earth, near the remains of a Neanderthal fire place, stone and bone tools. Extensive experimental research confirmed that the holes in the bone were hand-made and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}