{"id":"BARANDIARAN1985-001","label":"El Juyo fusiform bone fragment","people_or_site":"El Juyo Level 4","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"El Juyo Cave / Cantabria","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"zumbador / bramadera","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Distal fragment of a cut and polished fusiform bone plate from Level 4; only the blade end survives, so the original suspension end cannot be examined.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"barandiaran_freeman_echegaray_klein1985_juyo","source_type":"archaeological_monograph","source_url":"https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Aa04b5941-04b6-437f-9cb9-3203d4be193a/pdf14-barandiaran-freeman-echegaray-1987-juyo.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 188-190; Fig. 16 left","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate El Juyo cave anchor in Igollo/Camargo; not an object coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The polished bone plate from El Juyo's Level 4 - about 17,500 to 16,800 years old - has the sleek fusiform outline expected of a sounding blade, but it preserves the wrong half for certainty. Only the blade end survives; the suspension end is gone. The excavators themselves called the bullroarer reading debatable, even as they set the piece among the rare Cantabrian examples.","pull_quote":"una discutible función como «zumbador» o «bramadera»","pull_quote_translation":"a debatable function as a 'buzzer' or 'bullroarer'","pull_quote_cite":"Barandiarán et al. 1985/1987:188","term_gloss":"bramadera: Spanish bullroarer; zumbador: buzzer or humming sound-maker","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"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. 15,450–13,920 BC","date_qualification":"Level 4 charcoal range; object undated.","date_basis":"stratigraphic","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"barandiaran_freeman_echegaray_klein1985_juyo, Barandiarán et al. 1985/1987 p. 59 and pp. 188–190 fig. 16; Arias 2009 table 1 p. 282","sources":[{"citation":"Barandiarán, Freeman, González Echegaray and Klein, Excavaciones en la Cueva del Juyo, Monografías 14 (1985; legal deposit 1987), pp. 188-190, fig. 16 left","url":"https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Aa04b5941-04b6-437f-9cb9-3203d4be193a/pdf14-barandiaran-freeman-echegaray-1987-juyo.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240913155538/https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Aa04b5941-04b6-437f-9cb9-3203d4be193a/pdf14-barandiaran-freeman-echegaray-1987-juyo.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Barandiarán, Freeman, González Echegaray and Klein, Excavaciones en la Cueva del Juyo, Monografías 14 (1985; legal deposit 1987), pp. 188-190, fig. 16 left","source_display":"Barandiarán, Freeman, González Echegaray and Klein, Excavaciones en la Cueva del Juyo, Monografías 14 (1985; legal deposit 1987), pp. 188-190, fig. 16 left","date_citation_display":"Barandiarán et al. 1985/1987 p. 59 and pp. 188–190 fig. 16; Arias 2009 table 1 p. 282","object_display":"Distal fragment of a cut and polished fusiform bone plate from Level 4; only the blade end survives, so the original suspension end cannot be examined.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"juyo level","display_name":"El Juyo fusiform bone fragment","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BARANDIARAN1985-001_el_juyo_fig16_left.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BARANDIARAN1985-001_el_juyo_fig16_left_thumb.jpg","credit":"J. M. Barandiarán, L. G. Freeman, J. Echegaray and R. G. Klein, El Juyo (1985/1987), fig. 16","license":"No open license stated; rehosted low-resolution figure for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Aa04b5941-04b6-437f-9cb9-3203d4be193a/pdf14-barandiaran-freeman-echegaray-1987-juyo.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The El Juyo Level 4 bramadera fragment: only the blade end survives."},"slug":"barandiaran1985-001-el-juyo-level-4"}