{"id":"KOCH1992-004","label":"Bagow whirring blade","people_or_site":"Bagow Mesolithic find","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Brandenburg / former Kreis Brandenburg","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon","source_language":"German","object_description":"No object-level description has been recovered. Koch's find list gives the locality alone. His accompanying description of the East German Mesolithic set - the surviving pieces are bone, not wood; elongated-oval with a tendency to a streamlined form; the perforation at the one broader end; lengths between 13 and 21 cm, widths 2.0 to 2.5 cm, thickness under 0.7 cm - is stated for the group as a whole and is not a measurement of the Bagow piece.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"koch1992_bagow","source_type":"archaeomusicological_review","source_url":"https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jsmv/article/view/83836","page_or_plate":"printed p. 132, Fundliste 7 (Mesolithikum); group description p. 119","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Bagow village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Bagow, Päwesin, Potsdam-Mittelmark); a locality anchor only, not a findspot - Koch gives no find location within the village.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A Mesolithic bone whirring blade from Bagow, north-east of Brandenburg an der Havel. Klaus-Peter Koch counts it among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany, kin to the better-known blades from Pritzerbe, Fernewerder and Wustermark: flat bone, long and oval, a single hole through the broader end for the cord. The Bagow blade itself is lost; its size, its marks and its resting place are unknown.","pull_quote":"Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: Bagow, Kr. Brandenburg […]","pull_quote_translation":"Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: Bagow, district of Brandenburg […]","pull_quote_cite":"Koch 1992:132","term_gloss":"Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, \"whirrer\" and \"whirled aerophone\" - the archaeological 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":"Mesolithic classification only; object not individually dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"koch1992_bagow, Fundliste 7 p. 132 and group discussion p. 119; Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin Mesolithic display bracket","sources":[{"citation":"Klaus-Peter Koch, 'Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht,' Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992): 101-136, at pp. 119 and 132 (Fundliste 7)","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): 101-136, at pp. 119 and 132 (Fundliste 7)","source_display":"Klaus-Peter Koch, 'Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht,' Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992): 101-136, at pp. 119 and 132 (Fundliste 7)","date_citation_display":"Fundliste 7 p. 132 and group discussion p. 119; Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Berlin Mesolithic display bracket","object_display":"No object-level description has been recovered. Koch's find list gives the locality alone. His accompanying description of the East German Mesolithic set - the surviving pieces are bone, not wood; elongated-oval with a tendency to a streamlined form; the perforation at the one broader end; lengths between 13 and 21 cm, widths 2.0 to 2.5 cm, thickness under 0.7 cm - is stated for the group as a whole and is not a measurement of the Bagow piece.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"bagow mesolithic","display_name":"Bagow whirring blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/LUND1998-001_lund1998_fig2.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/LUND1998-001_lund1998_fig2_thumb.jpg","alt":"The Tuv shale bullroarer at right beside its nearby shale spearhead, photographed lying diagonally in rough gravel at Saltstraumen, Norway.","credit":"Photo H. Bjerck, in Cajsa S. Lund, 'What is wrong with music archaeology?' (1998), fig. 2","license":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://popups.uliege.be/2034-6190/index.php?id=4791","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"The Tuv Mesolithic find at Saltstraumen, Norway, still lying in the ground.","pool_id":"auto-LUND1998-001_lund1998_fig2"},"slug":"koch1992-004-bagow-mesolithic-find"}