{"id":"DIET2016-008","label":"Abri de Laugerie Basse Magdalenian bullroarer","people_or_site":"Abri de Laugerie Basse","country_current":"France","historic_region":"Dordogne / Les Eyzies","macroregion":"Europe / Southwest France","local_name":"","source_term":"decorated Paleolithic bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"Leaf-shaped blade, 107 mm long, pierced near one end.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"dietrich2016spatulae","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20140107065910/http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/dcrr/dcrr002.pdf","page_or_plate":"Morley 2003 (DCRR-002) pp. 34-36, Fig. 3.2 no. 2 (Laugerie Basse, 107 mm); after Dauvois 1989: 10","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"representative coordinate; source passage does not warrant a precise findspot","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"From the Magdalenian rock shelter of Laugerie-Basse, in the Vezere valley at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, comes a slender perforated piece about 107 millimetres long that ranks among a handful of French Palaeolithic objects read as bullroarers. Michel Dauvois illustrated it in his 1989 survey of Palaeolithic sound as one of seven likely Solutrean and Magdalenian specimens, and Iain Morley, reviewing that work, judged that for these pierced and engraved pieces interpretation as bullroarers \"remains by far the most likely attribution of their purpose.\" The same shelter gave prehistory its first Ice Age woman: in 1863 the marquis Paul de Vibraye took from Laugerie-Basse a slim figure of mammoth ivory, the first human image ever found in France, and called her impudique, the immodest one, for her frankly carved sex.","pull_quote":"any surviving bone examples are likely to represent only the tip of the iceberg ... as all could be (more) easily made from wood ... which would not survive to the present day.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Morley 2003, The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music (DCRR-002), p. 37","term_gloss":"","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. 15,000–9000 BC","date_qualification":"Magdalenian cultural attribution; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"dietrich2016spatulae, Morley 2003 (DCRR-002) pp. 34-36, Fig. 3.2 no. 2 (Laugerie Basse, 107 mm); after Dauvois 1989: 10","sources":[{"citation":"Iain Morley, The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music (Darwin College Research Report DCRR-002, Cambridge, 2003), pp. 34-37, fig. 3.2 no. 2; M. Dauvois, 'Son et musique paléolithiques,' Les Dossiers d'Archéologie 142 (1989): 2-11, at p. 10","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20140107065910/http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/dcrr/dcrr002.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Iain Morley, The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music (Darwin College Research Report DCRR-002, Cambridge, 2003), pp. 34-37, fig. 3.2 no. 2; M. Dauvois, 'Son et musique paléolithiques,' Les Dossiers d'Archéologie 142 (1989): 2-11, at p. 10","source_display":"Iain Morley, The Evolutionary Origins and Archaeology of Music (Darwin College Research Report DCRR-002, Cambridge, 2003), pp. 34-37, fig. 3.2 no. 2; M. Dauvois, 'Son et musique paléolithiques,' Les Dossiers d'Archéologie 142 (1989): 2-11, at p. 10","date_citation_display":"Dietrich 2016, Morley 2003 (DCRR-002) pp. 34-36, Fig. 3.2 no. 2 (Laugerie Basse, 107 mm); after Dauvois 1989: 10","object_display":"Leaf-shaped blade, 107 mm long, pierced near one end.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"abri laugerie","display_name":"Abri de Laugerie Basse Magdalenian bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/dauvois1989_french_paleolithic_bullroarers.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/dauvois1989_french_paleolithic_bullroarers_thumb.jpg","alt":"Four drawings of Palaeolithic blades after Michel Dauvois (1989); no. 2 is the broad, irregularly chipped Magdalenian blade from Laugerie-Basse.","crop_alt":"Drawing of the Magdalenian blade from Laugerie-Basse, no. 2: a broad tapered form with an upper perforation, a large missing section on one edge and hatched margins.","credit":"Don's Maps; plate photo credited there to Dauvois (1989); source/text credited to Morley (2003)","license":"Rights not stated on Don's Maps; low-resolution research-atlas reference from a source-cited educational page","source_page":"https://www.donsmaps.com/musicalinstruments.html","highlight":{"box":[0.317,0.05,0.295,0.73],"plate":[325,400]},"rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Four Palaeolithic bullroarers from French sites, drawn after Michel Dauvois (1989); no. 2 is the Magdalenian piece from Laugerie-Basse."},"slug":"diet2016-008-abri-de-laugerie-basse"}