{"id":"DUARTE2020-001","label":"Llonín bone plaque","people_or_site":"Llonín Cono Anterior Level X, square H-3","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Llonín Cave / Asturias","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"possible bull-roarer / espátula-bramadera","source_language":"English","object_description":"Bone plaque represented by proximal and distal fragments from square H-3, at depths of -900 and -935 cm; the excavation identifies them as an indirect refit of one object.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"duarte_rasilla2020_llonin_levelx","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/15_duarte_SE9ance%2B15%2BHD_p319-359.pdf","page_or_plate":"p. 326 Table 3; p. 331; Table 5; p. 349 (Llonín assemblage); Fortea et al. 1991 p. 13","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate Llonín cave anchor near La Molinuca; not a square-level coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A needle lay inside a bone tube in square I-3 of Llonín’s anterior cone, beside another needle and five more tubes. Two further needles came from the neighbouring square, H-3, where the excavators also found a perforated bone disc and this bone plaque, which they list as a possible bullroarer. Shell pendants outnumbered points and other artefacts in this layer: a concentration of small tools and ornaments, blurred by movement within the cone, with a sounding blade among them.","pull_quote":"a perforated bone disc and a possible bull-roarer appeared in the same square","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Duarte Matías and de la Rasilla Vives 2020:331","term_gloss":"espátula-bramadera: Spanish, 'spatula-bullroarer', the excavators' earlier name for the piece.","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. 15,000–12,000 BC","date_qualification":"Broad Middle Magdalenian MM2 cultural range; Level X object not directly dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"duarte_rasilla2020_llonin_levelx, Duarte Matías and de la Rasilla Vives 2020 pp. 319–320, 331 and 349–353","sources":[{"citation":"Elsa Duarte Matías and Marco de la Rasilla Vives, “The bone industry collections from La Viña and Llonín” (2020), p. 326 table 3, p. 331, table 5, p. 349","url":"https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/15_duarte_SE9ance%2B15%2BHD_p319-359.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250207045610/https://www.prehistoire.org/offres/doc_inline_src/515/15_duarte_SE9ance%2B15%2BHD_p319-359.pdf"},{"citation":"Fortea et al. (1991), p. 13"}],"source_citations":"Elsa Duarte Matías and Marco de la Rasilla Vives, “The bone industry collections from La Viña and Llonín” (2020), p. 326 table 3, p. 331, table 5, p. 349; Fortea et al. (1991), p. 13","source_display":"Elsa Duarte Matías and Marco de la Rasilla Vives, “The bone industry collections from La Viña and Llonín” (2020), p. 326 table 3, p. 331, table 5, p. 349; Fortea et al. (1991), p. 13","date_citation_display":"Duarte Matías and de la Rasilla Vives 2020 pp. 319–320, 331 and 349–353","object_display":"Bone plaque represented by proximal and distal fragments from square H-3, at depths of -900 and -935 cm; the excavation identifies them as an indirect refit of one object.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"llon cono","display_name":"Llonín bone plaque","image":{"full":"assets/objects/shared_laroche_rhombus_man74482.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/shared_laroche_rhombus_man74482_thumb.jpg","alt":"The La Roche cave engraved bone bullroarer.","credit":"Photo: Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart; Musée d’Archéologie nationale, MAN 74482, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped and rotated 180° by The Bullroarer Atlas","license":"CC BY 4.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhombus_from_La_Roche_cave_MAN_74482.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The La Roche cave engraved bone bullroarer."},"slug":"duarte2020-001-llonin-cono-anterior-level-x-square-h-3"}