{"id":"KOCH1992-003","label":"Wustermark plain whirring blade","people_or_site":"Wustermark Mesolithic find","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Brandenburg / Havelland","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrplättchen / Schwirrblatt","source_language":"German","object_description":"Long, dark, slightly curved and tapered Mesolithic bone blade, undecorated, with a single perforation at its broader end.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"koch1992_wustermark","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":"Wustermark town anchor; no site number or exact findspot is recovered, and the object is not assigned to Wustermark 22.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Dark, slightly curved, tapering, with one hole through the wide end and not a mark of decoration on it: the bone blade from Wustermark is the plain sibling of the V-engraved blade from Fernewerder, and where Berlin can show only a copy of that one, the Wustermark blade in the case is the original. Koch counted it among the Mesolithic whirring blades of eastern Germany; the museum dates it only to the long forager span between 9600 and 4000 BC. Where in Wustermark it came out of the ground nobody now records.","pull_quote":"Die Durchbohrung befindet sich an dem einen (breiteren) Ende.","pull_quote_translation":"The perforation is located at one, broader end.","pull_quote_cite":"Koch 1992:119","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_wustermark, 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 Wustermark, pp. 119–120 and Fundliste 7 p. 132; Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin display","object_display":"Long, dark, slightly curved and tapered Mesolithic bone blade, undecorated, with a single perforation at its broader end.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"wustermark mesolithic","display_name":"Wustermark plain whirring blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-003_wustermark_museum_object.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-003_wustermark_museum_object_thumb.jpg","credit":"Einsamer Schütze, Wikimedia Commons, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin 060","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":"Exact Berlin museum photograph of the Wustermark undecorated Mesolithic bone Schwirrblatt."},"slug":"koch1992-003-wustermark-mesolithic-find"}