{"id":"MUS2026-240","label":"Tito Bustillo rib spatula","people_or_site":"Cueva de Tito Bustillo, Ardines, Ribadesella","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Asturias / Ribadesella / Ardines","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"espatula-bramadera (museum label); espatula decorada en proceso de fabricacion (original excavation reading)","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"Proximal section of a rib, 139 mm long and about 20 mm wide, shaped at one end into a rounded, blade-like spatula and worked to a point at the other; no perforation is visible in the museum photograph.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"moure_1982_1990_tito_bustillo_07350","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://museoarqueologicodeasturias.com/sites/default/files/1_Prehistoria.pdf","page_or_plate":"Moure 1982:668-669; Moure (RIA site report), fig. 10 no. 3, pp. 119-121; Barandiaran 2012:210-213; museum exhibition PDF p. 29","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Cueva de Tito Bustillo site coordinate, Ardines, Ribadesella, Asturias.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"From the base of Tito Bustillo's upper Magdalenian layer, square XII-C, came a worked rib 139 millimetres long, blade-shaped at one end and pointed at the other. Alfonso Moure published it in 1982 as a spatula caught mid-manufacture. Decades later, the Museo Arqueológico de Asturias displays the same accession, 07350, under a different name: espátula-bramadera, spatula-bullroarer. The layer around it dates to roughly 17,800 to 17,400 years ago.","pull_quote":"Sobre una de las caras conserva dos representaciones de caballo dispuestas en hilera... El interior presenta un sombreado a base de trazos cortos que reproduce el pelaje...","pull_quote_translation":"On one face it preserves two figures of horses set in a row... Inside the outline, a shading of short strokes reproduces the coat...","pull_quote_cite":"Alfonso Moure Romanillo, La cueva de Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella, Asturias): El yacimiento paleolítico, p. 120","term_gloss":"bramadera: Spanish bullroarer; espatula: spatula, a flat bone tool typically read as a hide-working or decorative implement; the museum's compound label espatula-bramadera keeps both readings in one term.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"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. 15,800–15,400 BC","date_qualification":"Calibrated AMS date for Layer 1c.1; object from the base of that layer, not directly dated.","date_basis":"stratigraphic","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"moure_1982_1990_tito_bustillo_07350, excavation report pp. 119–121; Álvarez-Fernández et al. 2018 table 1; Museo Arqueológico de Asturias catalogue p. 29","sources":[{"citation":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 29, accession 07350","url":"https://museoarqueologicodeasturias.com/sites/default/files/1_Prehistoria.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240617100856/https://museoarqueologicodeasturias.com/sites/default/files/1_Prehistoria.pdf"},{"citation":"Alfonso Moure Romanillo, \"Espátula decorada procedente del Magdaleniense de la cueva de Tito Bustillo,\" Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Asturianos 107 (1982), pp. 668-669"},{"citation":"Alfonso Moure Romanillo, La cueva de Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella, Asturias): El yacimiento paleolítico, pp. 119-121, fig. 10 no. 3"},{"citation":"Barandiarán (2012), pp. 210-213"}],"source_citations":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 29, accession 07350; Alfonso Moure Romanillo, \"Espátula decorada procedente del Magdaleniense de la cueva de Tito Bustillo,\" Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Asturianos 107 (1982), pp. 668-669; Alfonso Moure Romanillo, La cueva de Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella, Asturias): El yacimiento paleolítico, pp. 119-121, fig. 10 no. 3; Barandiarán (2012), pp. 210-213","source_display":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 29, accession 07350; Alfonso Moure Romanillo, \"Espátula decorada procedente del Magdaleniense de la cueva de Tito Bustillo,\" Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Asturianos 107 (1982), pp. 668-669; Alfonso Moure Romanillo, La cueva de Tito Bustillo…","date_citation_display":"excavation report pp. 119–121; Álvarez-Fernández et al. 2018 table 1; Museo Arqueológico de Asturias catalogue p. 29","object_display":"Proximal section of a rib, 139 mm long and about 20 mm wide, shaped at one end into a rounded, blade-like spatula and worked to a point at the other; no perforation is visible in the museum photograph.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cueva tito","display_name":"Tito Bustillo rib spatula","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-240_tito_bustillo_07350.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-240_tito_bustillo_07350_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, accession 07350 (Cueva de Tito Bustillo, Ardines, Ribadesella)","license":"Unstated -- rehosted low-res for non-commercial research from a government-museum public-education sheet","source_page":"https://museoarqueologicodeasturias.com/sites/default/files/1_Prehistoria.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Labelled espátula-bramadera by the Asturias museum: a worked rib tapering to a point, no perforation visible."},"slug":"mus2026-240-cueva-de-tito-bustillo-ardines-ribadesella"}