{"id":"KOCH1992-002","label":"Fernewerder decorated whirring blade","people_or_site":"Fernewerder A Mesolithic find","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Brandenburg / former Kreis Nauen","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrplättchen / Schwirrblatt","source_language":"German","object_description":"Long tapered bone blade with one perforation at the broader end and four longitudinal rows of engraved V motifs; the Berlin display shows a replica because the original is held in Russia.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"koch1992_fernewerder_a","source_type":"archaeomusicological_review","source_url":"https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jsmv/article/view/83836","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 119–120; Fundliste 7; Berlin museum display","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Fernewerder locality anchor from public OSM/GeoNames data; the exact archaeological findspot is not recovered.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A long bone blade tapers to a single perforation at its broader end, with four rows of V-shaped nicks cut down its faces. That ornament is why Koch singled it out among the eight Mesolithic whirring blades of his eastern German survey, and why Berlin's prehistory museum displays it as a decorated Schwirrblatt from the Havelland hunters' gear, somewhere in the millennia between 9600 and 4000 BC. But the blade in the case is a copy: the original went east as war booty and sits in Russia, out of reach for anyone wanting to check its thickness, its wear, or the hand that cut the Vs.","pull_quote":"Das Objekt aus Fernewerder, Kr. Nauen, hat vier Reihen aus V-Motiven.","pull_quote_translation":"The object from Fernewerder, Kreis Nauen, has four rows of V motifs.","pull_quote_cite":"Koch 1992:120","term_gloss":"Schwirrplättchen / Schwirrblatt: small whirring plate or whirring blade; archaeological German terms for a bullroarer","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. 9600–4000 BC","date_qualification":"Museum display date; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"museum_label","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"koch1992_fernewerder, pp. 119–120 and Fundliste 7 p. 132; Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin display","sources":[{"citation":"Klaus-Peter Koch, Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht, Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992), pp. 119-120, Fundliste 7; Berlin Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte display and label","url":"https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jsmv/article/view/83836","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20241113214443/https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jsmv/article/view/83836"}],"source_citations":"Klaus-Peter Koch, Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht, Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992), pp. 119-120, Fundliste 7; Berlin Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte display and label","source_display":"Klaus-Peter Koch, Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht, Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992), pp. 119-120, Fundliste 7; Berlin Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte display and label","date_citation_display":"Koch 1992 Fernewerder, pp. 119–120 and Fundliste 7 p. 132; Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin display","object_display":"Long tapered bone blade with one perforation at the broader end and four longitudinal rows of engraved V motifs; the Berlin display shows a replica because the original is held in Russia.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"fernewerder mesolithic","display_name":"Fernewerder decorated whirring blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-002_fernewerder_museum_object.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-002_fernewerder_museum_object_thumb.jpg","alt":"A replica of the decorated Fernewerder bone Schwirrblatt displayed in a museum, with repeated incised geometric bands.","credit":"Photo Einsamer Schütze, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_f%C3%BCr_Vor-_und_Fr%C3%BChgeschichte_Berlin_060.jpg","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A replica of the Fernewerder bone Schwirrblatt on display at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin."},"slug":"koch1992-002-fernewerder-a-mesolithic-find"}