{"id":"AIMAR2000-001","label":"Lucone pierced shinbone blade","people_or_site":"Lucone A pile-dwelling settlement, Lucone basin (1966 'Trincea lunga', Level E)","country_current":"Italy","historic_region":"Morainic amphitheatre of Lake Garda, Polpenazze del Garda, Brescia (Lombardy); Early–Middle Bronze Age","macroregion":"Europe / Northeast Italy","local_name":"","source_term":"spatola ricavata da scheggia diafisaria ... trasformata in pendaglio (spatula from a shaft splinter, made into a pendant)","source_language":"Italian","object_description":"Splinter of a large mammal's tibia worked into a long blade, 148 mm, thin and broadened into a rounded paddle at one end and cut square at the other, where a single hole is drilled through the centre. Broken across the middle and rejoined; one edge of the narrow part is rough where a fracture took it away. Museum inventory St 79073.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"aimar2000_lucone_st79073","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.museoarcheologicogavardo.it/sites/default/files/attachments/Testi_0.pdf","page_or_plate":"Aimar & Gregoriani 2000, p. 53, fig. 21A–C; catalogue no. 121; plate VIII (St 79073, 1966, Liv. TL/E, 148 mm)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Lucone di Polpenazze UNESCO pile-dwelling site (Italian Wikipedia site coordinate 45°33′02.74″N 10°29′15.72″E). Basin-level point for the Lucone settlements, not the 1966 long trench.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The little lake of Lucone, in the moraine hills west of Lake Garda, has long since been drained, but for most of the Bronze Age villages of timber houses stood at its edge. When excavators cut a long trench through the old lakeside bank in 1966, worked bone turned up so thickly at one end that they nicknamed the spot \"the craftsman's workshop\". This blade came out of that trench. It was split from the shinbone of a large animal and ground thin and broad into a rounded paddle at one end. The other end was cut square and drilled through with a single hole. It is fifteen centimetres long.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","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":"object","date_display":"c. 2200–1300 BC","date_qualification":"Lucone basin Bronze Age occupation (Lucone A: Early–Middle Bronze Age); object not directly dated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"aimar2000_lucone_st79073, Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Lucone site page (node/292); Simoni 1967 pp. 9, 14","sources":[{"citation":"Antonella Aimar and Stefano Gregoriani, 'I manufatti in materia dura animale del sito di Lucone. Analisi micromorfologica di superficie', Annali del Museo Civico Archeologico della Valle Sabbia 18 (2000), p. 53, fig. 21, catalogue no. 121","url":"https://www.museoarcheologicogavardo.it/sites/default/files/attachments/Testi_0.pdf"},{"citation":"Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo: spatola ricavata da scheggia diafisaria, St 79073","url":"https://museoarcheologicogavardo.it/content/spatola-ricavata-da-scheggia-diafisaria"},{"citation":"Piero Simoni, 'Seconda campagna di ricerche all'ex-lago Lucone: indagini sul terrapieno', Annali del Museo 6 (1967): 5–28","url":"https://www.museoarcheologicogavardo.it/sites/default/files/attachments/2.Piero%20Simoni%20-%20Seconda%20campagna%20di%20ricerche%20all%27ex%20lago%20Lucone%20-%20indagini%20sul%20terrapieno.pdf"},{"citation":"Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo: Lucone di Polpenazze","url":"https://museoarcheologicogavardo.it/node/292"}],"source_citations":"Antonella Aimar and Stefano Gregoriani, 'I manufatti in materia dura animale del sito di Lucone. Analisi micromorfologica di superficie', Annali del Museo Civico Archeologico della Valle Sabbia 18 (2000), p. 53, fig. 21, catalogue no. 121; Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo: spatola ricavata da scheggia diafisaria, St 79073; Piero Simoni, 'Seconda campagna di ricerche all'ex-lago Lucone: indagini sul terrapieno', Annali del Museo 6 (1967): 5–28; Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo: Lucone di Polpenazze","source_display":"Antonella Aimar and Stefano Gregoriani, 'I manufatti in materia dura animale del sito di Lucone. Analisi micromorfologica di superficie', Annali del Museo Civico Archeologico della Valle Sabbia 18 (2000), p. 53, fig. 21, catalogue no. 121; Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo: spatola ricavata da scheggia diafisaria, St 79073; Piero Simoni…","date_citation_display":"Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Lucone site page (node/292); Simoni 1967 pp. 9, 14","object_display":"Splinter of a large mammal's tibia worked into a long blade, 148 mm, thin and broadened into a rounded paddle at one end and cut square at the other, where a single hole is drilled through the centre. Broken across the middle and rejoined; one edge of the narrow part is rough where a fracture took it away. Museum inventory St 79073.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lucone pile","display_name":"Lucone pierced shinbone blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/rowing_2026_11_03/aimar2000_001_lucone_st79073.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/rowing_2026_11_03/thumbs/aimar2000_001_lucone_st79073.jpg","alt":"A long, slightly curved brown bone blade, cut square at the left end, where a single hole is drilled through it, and rounded and broad at the right.","credit":"Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia, Gavardo, St 79073","source_page":"https://www.museoarcheologicogavardo.it/","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Shinbone blade from Lucone A, Lake Garda, Early–Middle Bronze Age; 148 mm, with its hole at the squared end.","last_modified":"2026-11-03"},"slug":"aimar2000-001-lucone-a-pile-dwelling-settlement-lucone-basin-1966-trincea-lunga-level-e"}