{"id":"GALIN1988-002","label":"Vlasac wooden bullroarer","people_or_site":"Vlasac Mesolithic–Early Neolithic site","country_current":"Serbia","historic_region":"Vlasac / Iron Gates (Đerdap), Danube Gorge","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"bull roarer, made of wood","source_language":"English","object_description":"Known only from Krešimir Galin's own description of his unrecovered figure: a wood object he calls a bullroarer. No dimensions, shape, perforation, or cordage are recorded, and no drawing or photograph of it survives.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"galin1988_vlasac_fig38_wooden_bullroarer","source_type":"archaeomusicological_review","source_url":"https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/53672","page_or_plate":"Galin 1988 p. 136 and Fig. 38 (plate pp. 147-148, not digitized, not recovered)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Vlasac site anchor in the Danube Gorges (Iron Gates), a few km downstream of Lepenski Vir near the village of Dobra, Serbia — a well-known, resolved site locality; not an object find-spot, since no in-site provenance for Fig. 38 survives.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among four bullroarers Krešimir Galin catalogued from Yugoslavia in 1988 — from an Alpine cave, from Dalmatia, from central Bosnia — the fourth he places at Vlasac, on the Danube in the Iron Gates gorge, and describes in a single clause: it is made of wood. No drawing of it has ever come to light, and no independent account of the object exists anywhere in the Vlasac literature. A wooden bullroarer surviving from Mesolithic or Early Neolithic Vlasac would be remarkable — organic material this old rarely survives at all. The claim stands exactly where Galin left it: named, numbered, and unseen.","pull_quote":"The bull roarers of the early Neolithic correspond to comparative specimens of bull roarers found in Bosnia and Hercegovina, from the site of Obre (Fig. no. 37) (A. Benac, 1979, 363), but also from Serbia, at the Vlasac site (D. Srejović, 1979, 75). This example is made of wood (Fig. no. 38).","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","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. 6300–5200 BC","date_qualification":"Vlasac Mesolithic–Early Neolithic site range; the object is not separately dated.","date_basis":"site_horizon","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"galin1988_vlasac_wooden_bullroarer_fig38, Galin 1988 p. 136 and fig. 38; Srejović 1979 p. 75","sources":[{"citation":"Krešimir Galin, 'Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,' Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, at p. 136 and fig. 38, citing D. Srejović, in Praistorija jugoslavenskih zemalja II (Sarajevo, 1979), p. 75","url":"https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/53672","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013033849/https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/53672"}],"source_citations":"Krešimir Galin, 'Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,' Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, at p. 136 and fig. 38, citing D. Srejović, in Praistorija jugoslavenskih zemalja II (Sarajevo, 1979), p. 75","source_display":"Krešimir Galin, 'Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,' Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, at p. 136 and fig. 38, citing D. Srejović, in Praistorija jugoslavenskih zemalja II (Sarajevo, 1979), p. 75","date_citation_display":"Galin 1988 p. 136 and fig. 38; Srejović 1979 p. 75","object_display":"","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"vlasac mesolithic","display_name":"Vlasac wooden bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/PEUR2026-006_welte1985_fig1_fontales.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/PEUR2026-006_welte1985_fig1_fontales_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Fontalès blade, a fish-shaped Magdalenian bone engraved with a salmonid and ending in a pierced ring.","credit":"A.-C. Welté, BSPF 82(9), 1985, fig. 1, p. 274; cliché F. Séguy — via Persée","license":"CC BY-NC-ND (Persée); the 1985 article and photograph remain in copyright","source_page":"https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1985_num_82_9_8697","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Fontalès blade: a fish-shaped Magdalenian rib bone engraved with a salmon.","pool_id":"auto-PEUR2026-006_welte1985_fig1_fontales"},"slug":"galin1988-002-vlasac-mesolithic-early-neolithic-site"}