{"id":"CATAL2007-001","label":"Çatalhöyük Building 59 antler pendant","people_or_site":"Çatalhöyük East Mound, North/4040 Area, Building 59","country_current":"Turkey","historic_region":"Konya Plain / Central Anatolia","macroregion":"Near East / Anatolia","local_name":"","source_term":"crude antler pendant of the bullroarer type","source_language":"English","object_description":"Roughly flat antler blade tapering from a squared end pierced with a single hole, the tip broken away in antiquity.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"catalhoyuk2007_14620_f1","source_type":"field_archive_report","source_url":"https://www.catalhoyuk.com/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archive_Report_2007.pdf","page_or_plate":"Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, printed p. 175, Fig. 127; find 14620.F1; Neo-Lithics 1/16 p. 28","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Çatalhöyük site anchor, shared with the 2005 antler bullroarer; not a building or unit coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"An oven fill in Building 59 at Çatalhöyük gave up a rough antler blade — flat, tapering, holed near its squared end, its tip snapped off long before it was buried. The worked-bone report filed it as “a crude antler pendant of the bullroarer type,” a phrase that catches the site's standing puzzle: a whole class of these plain perforated plaques is catalogued as pendants despite their rough finish, and Nerissa Russell has floated loom weights, plumb bobs and bullroarers for the class alike. This one is small and dated only by the house it lay in.","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. 6610–6250 BC","date_qualification":"Building 59 context; object undated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"catalhoyuk_2007_archive_report, printed p. 175 fig. 127; Building 59 discussion pp. 80–96; Larsen et al. 2015 table 1, DOI 10.1007/s10963-015-9084-6","sources":[{"citation":"Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, Worked Bone section, p. 175, fig. 127 (find 14620.F1); Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff, Neo-Lithics 1/16 (2016), p. 28","url":"https://www.catalhoyuk.com/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archive_Report_2007.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261004091836/https://www.catalhoyuk.com/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archive_Report_2007.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, Worked Bone section, p. 175, fig. 127 (find 14620.F1); Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff, Neo-Lithics 1/16 (2016), p. 28","source_display":"Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, Worked Bone section, p. 175, fig. 127 (find 14620.F1); Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff, Neo-Lithics 1/16 (2016), p. 28","date_citation_display":"printed p. 175 fig. 127; Building 59 discussion pp. 80–96; Larsen et al. 2015 table 1, DOI 10.1007/s10963-015-9084-6","object_display":"Roughly flat antler blade tapering from a squared end pierced with a single hole, the tip broken away in antiquity.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"atalh east","display_name":"Çatalhöyük Building 59 antler pendant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/CATAL2007-001_catalhoyuk_14620f1_fig127.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/CATAL2007-001_catalhoyuk_14620f1_fig127_thumb.jpg","credit":"Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, fig. 127, object 14620.F1","license":"No open license stated; rehosted low-resolution figure for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://www.catalhoyuk.com/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archive_Report_2007.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The rough antler blade from a Building 59 oven fill, holed near its squared end."},"slug":"catal2007-001-catalhoyuk-east-mound-north-4040-area-building-59"}