In early 2012, a team of archaeologists discovered something groundbreaking inside a cave

in southern Germany.

They'd been working in the region for years, chasing a theory that early humans had followed

the Danube River north into central Europe around 45,000 years ago.

The caves had provided a mountain of evidence, early human jewelry, cave art representing

humans and their growing collection of mythical heroes.

But this cave added a new element to our picture of that early culture.

There, in the dust and sediment of this dark cavern, researchers found, flutes.

They were all made of bone, some mammoth, some bird, but they'd all been crafted in a

way that would be completely recognizable to us today.

As were drilled into one side, spaced out at regular intervals, and they are, to date,

the oldest instruments uncovered in the world.

Music has been a part of human culture for thousands of years, and if you ask an archaeologist,

she would probably tell you that even older instruments once existed.

They're just impossible to find.

Our voices, after all, are the original musical instrument, and shortly after that, scientists

believe it was percussion that was invented next.

Music is in our blood.

It's in our soul.

The human experience, whether it was that of a nomadic, paleolithic hunter or a modern

college student, would be incomplete without music.

It pulls at our emotions.

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