• Dahlia Shehata - Florian Leitmeir - Kamila Wysłucha - Stefan Hagel (Editors)

Journal of Music Archaeology

Volume 1, 2023

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The Journal of Music Archaeology (JMA) is the first double-blind-reviewed open access periodical in the field of music archaeology, continuing the spirit of the series Studien zur Musikarchäologie, formerly published by the DAI. It addresses questions concerning the archaeology of sound and rhythmical behaviour of past cultures all over the globe, including the study and reconstruction of certain or possible sound tools, the investigation of soundscapes, especially where intentionally chosen or erected, as well as related historical, anthropological and ethnological research based on iconographies, literatures, and comparative studies reflecting the wide range of approaches and methodologies that has characterised music archaeology from its beginnings.

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Journal of Music Archaeology

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Sounds from a Base Camp. Different Ways of Reconstructing and Playing the ‘Grubgraben’ Wind Instrument

    Maria Hackl, Veronika Kaudela, Bernardette Käfer

Journal of Music Archaeology, Volume 1, 2023, pp. 103-123, 2024/10/28

Volume 1, 2023

doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/JMA-001-05


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doi:https://doi.org/10.1553/JMA-001-05

Abstract

Since the discovery of a fragmented Ice Age wind instrument was made in 1994 at a base camp of Palaeolithic reindeer hunters in Grubgraben/Kammern in Lower Austria, several attempts to reconstruct the instrument have been made. Due to the fact that both ends of the bone are broken pre-depositionally, varying options for reconstruction have been discussed since 1997. The most prominent research questions remain: How was the instrument likely played, how did it sound, and how can the sonic results of reconstruction experiments be displayed and interpreted? This paper will build a bridge from the first detailed research, carried out in the late nineties, to today’s more wide-spread field of scientific research on Palaeolithic aerophones, in order to shift attention to possibilities for reconstructing the Grubgraben artefact beyond those first attempts. It will also contextualize the instrument within recent music archaeological research and data. Throughout this paper, the main focus will be on studies of the instrument as an end-blown flute and the resulting tonal properties and pitch ranges, as they were presented and discussed at the 11th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology in Berlin in November 2021 by Maria Hackl and Veronika Kaudela.

Keywords: Palaeolithic wind instrument; Bone flute; Epigravettian; Kammern/Grubgraben; Experimental archaeology