{"id":"KOCH1992-005","label":"Burgwall whirring blade","people_or_site":"Burgwall Mesolithic find","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Brandenburg / former Kreis Gransee","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 Burgwall piece.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"koch1992_burgwall","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":"Burgwall village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Burgwall, Zehdenick, Oberhavel; Zehdenick lay in the former Kreis Gransee, which is how Koch files it). Locality anchor only, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"In the lake country near Zehdenick, Burgwall gave up one of the Mesolithic bone whirring blades that Klaus-Peter Koch counts among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany, kin to the better-known blades from Pritzerbe and Fernewerder: flat bone, long and oval, pierced at the broader end. Like its neighbours from Bagow and Döberitz, the Burgwall blade itself is lost, with no photograph or measurement of its own.","pull_quote":"Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Burgwall, Kr. Gransee […]","pull_quote_translation":"Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Burgwall, district of Gransee […]","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_burgwall, 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 Burgwall piece.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"burgwall mesolithic","display_name":"Burgwall 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":true,"caption":"The Mesolithic Fernewerder bone blade, incised."},"slug":"koch1992-005-burgwall-mesolithic-find"}