What Did Ancient Humans Do Before Spotify?

Before Spotify, music had to be made live — with voices, hands, bones, shells, and whatever early humans could turn into sound. In this video, we trace the story of music from the human voice and the hyoid bone to possible Neanderthal flutes, Ice Age bone instruments, mammoth ivory flutes, ancient shells, and eventually the first attempts to preserve music in writing. How did humans discover music? Why did they make instruments? And how did we go from a sound that disappeared instantly to songs that could survive across generations? This is the story of how humans learned to make music — long before playlists, headphones, or Spotify.