{"id":"KOCH1992-006","label":"Döberitz whirring blade","people_or_site":"Döberitz Mesolithic find","country_current":"Germany","historic_region":"Brandenburg / Havelland, former Kreis Rathenow","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 Döberitz piece.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"koch1992_doeberitz","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":"Döberitz village anchor from public OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer data (Döberitz, Premnitz, Havelland; Premnitz lay in the former Kreis Rathenow). Locality anchor only, not a findspot; this is not the Döberitz heath west of Berlin.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Döberitz sits on the Havel a few bends from Pritzerbe, whose polished, dotted bone blade is the best-known whirring device of the region. Klaus-Peter Koch counts the Döberitz find as its kin among the Mesolithic whirled aerophones of eastern Germany, a blade of the same flat, pierced bone. The piece itself is lost, with no image or measurement of its own.","pull_quote":"Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Döberitz, Kr. Rathenow […]","pull_quote_translation":"Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Döberitz, district of Rathenow […]","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_doeberitz, 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 Döberitz piece.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"beritz mesolithic","display_name":"Döberitz whirring blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-003_wustermark_museum_object.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/KOCH1992-003_wustermark_museum_object_thumb.jpg","alt":"A dark, undecorated Mesolithic bone blade from Wustermark, long and broad with a rounded taper and a hole near one end.","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":true,"caption":"Wustermark Mesolithic bone blade."},"slug":"koch1992-006-doberitz-mesolithic-find"}