Journeys into deep time: Human music. The first musical instruments — mammoth ivory and bird wing-bone flutes — were unearthed from caves in what is now southern Germany. The sound sample below is from a mammoth ivory flute, played by flutist Anna Friederike Potengowski. The instrument was made by Wulf Hein.

The book Sounds Wild and Broken is an invitation to listen to the marvels and fractures of the world. I hope that it inspires you to listen in your own place, finding your own sonic wonders. I offer the sound clips here as a sampler of the sounds and stories from the book. Longer versions of most are available for radio and podcasts.
Sounds Wild and Broken is available for pre-order in the US and UK, with translations forthcoming.
Copyright David George Haskell 2022.

Paleolithic flute reconstruction

Superb Lyrebird calling in the early morning, not long after dawn, in the Jamison Valley. This particular area of the Jamison Valley is on the slopes of the Narrow Neck Plateau and is covered in lush, wet sclerophyll forest, which borders a small pocket of rainforest.
Some of the birds the lyrebird mimics in this performance are: Laughing Kookaburra, Satin Bowerbird, Eastern Whipbird, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Lewin's Honeyeater, Pied Currawong, Crimson Rosella, Pilotbird, Australian King Parrot. Many of the odd sounds it makes are pure Lyrebird calls as they do have their own unique repertoire. 
In the background you can hear many Bell Miners twinkling.
November, 2014.

Superb Lyrebird In The Jamison Valley, Blue Mountains

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Author of Sounds Wild and Broken: available for pre-order now.
Also: The Forest Unseen, The Songs of Trees, Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree
https://dghaskell.com/

Paleolithic flute reconstruction

David George Haskell

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