{"id":"AAS2008-001","label":"Taru Thang held-implement figure","people_or_site":"Taru Thang Petroglyph Site 1, panel p315","country_current":"India","historic_region":"Upper Ladakh [Zhungkor], Ladakh Union Territory","macroregion":"South Asia","local_name":"","source_term":"tjurunga / bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A pecked human figure on rock panel p315 at Taru Thang holds an object interpreted as a bullroarer.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"rock_art_depiction","source_key":"aas2008_taru_thang_p315_fig4_4","source_type":"academic_thesis","source_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/1956/3042","page_or_plate":"Aas 2008, p. 40, fig. 4.4 (fig. 128 panel 6; fig. 18 panel 1)","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Published archive coordinate for the exact Taru Thang p315 panel, Ladakh Archaeology / Nakala collection.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"High in Upper Ladakh's Trans-Himalayan desert, human figures stride across a weathered rock panel. One holds the object that makes this carving so unusual: a bullroarer. No sound or motion survives in the stone, only a raised implement in a human hand.","pull_quote":"One of the human figures is holding what can be interpreted as a tjurunga, a bullroarer (Scandinavian 'brummer').","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang (MA thesis, University of Bergen, 2008), p. 40","term_gloss":"tjurunga — Central Australian name for a sacred bullroarer or carved board.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"rock_art","date_display":"c. 8500–3000 BC","date_qualification":"Pre-farming horizon, after Aas; motif undated.","date_basis":"broad_claim","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"aas2008_taru_thang_p315_fig4_4, Aas 2008 p. 40 fig. 4.4; Archaeological Survey of India 2016 Ladakh chronology; Spate 2024","sources":[{"citation":"Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang: The Mountain Goat: A Religious and Social Symbol of the Dardic Speaking People of the Trans-Himalayas, MA thesis in archaeology, University of Bergen, 2008, p. 40 and fig. 4.4","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/1956/3042"}],"source_citations":"Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang: The Mountain Goat: A Religious and Social Symbol of the Dardic Speaking People of the Trans-Himalayas, MA thesis in archaeology, University of Bergen, 2008, p. 40 and fig. 4.4","source_display":"Lars Reinholt Aas, The Rock Carvings of Taru Thang: The Mountain Goat: A Religious and Social Symbol of the Dardic Speaking People of the Trans-Himalayas, MA thesis in archaeology, University of Bergen, 2008, p. 40 and fig. 4.4","date_citation_display":"Aas 2008 p. 40 fig. 4.4; Archaeological Survey of India 2016 Ladakh chronology; Spate 2024","object_display":"A pecked human figure on rock panel p315 at Taru Thang holds an object interpreted as a bullroarer.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"rock art depiction","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"taru thang","display_name":"Taru Thang held-implement figure","slug":"aas2008-001-taru-thang-petroglyph-site-1-panel-p315"}