{"id":"MUS2026-241","label":"El Cierro perforated plaque","people_or_site":"Cueva del Cierro, Fresno, Ribadesella","country_current":"Spain","historic_region":"Asturias / Ribadesella / Fresno (Fresnu)","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"espatula-bramadera (museum label)","source_language":"Spanish","object_description":"A flat, elongated worked plaque, rounded and single-perforated near its upper end and tapering slightly toward the other, shown in the museum's accession photograph against a centimetre scale bar; no publication confirms what material it is worked from.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"museoasturias_2026_el_cierro_07849","source_type":"museum_catalog","source_url":"https://museoarqueologicodeasturias.com/sites/default/files/1_Prehistoria.pdf","page_or_plate":"Museum exhibition PDF p. 36; Alvarez-Alonso and de Andres-Herrero 2012, pp. 402, 406-407","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Ribadesella / Sella-valley area anchor near Fresno (Fresnu), on the west bank of the Sella, close to Cueva de Tito Bustillo; no published cave-mouth coordinate was recovered, so this pins the immediate area rather than the cave entrance.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A flat, worked plaque from Cueva del Cierro, rounded at one end and pierced near it, hangs in the Asturias museum under a label that names two functions at once: espátula-bramadera, spatula-bullroarer. Older reports from a Lower Magdalenian layer in the same cave describe a polished, perforated rib and a separate perforated shaft among the site's ornaments, either of which could be this very piece.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"bramadera: Spanish bullroarer; espatula: spatula, the museum's paired term for this flat form.","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. 18,000–16,500 BC","date_qualification":"Lower Magdalenian contextual range at El Cierro; accession 07849 is not tied to a specific layer.","date_basis":"broad_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"museoasturias_2026_el_cierro_07849, Museo Arqueológico de Asturias catalogue p. 36; Álvarez-Alonso and de Andrés-Herrero 2012 pp. 402 and 406–407; Álvarez-Fernández et al. 2024, DOI 10.1007/s41982-024-00179-x, Table 1 and pp. 5–6","sources":[{"citation":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 36, accession 07849; David Álvarez-Alonso and María de Andrés-Herrero, 'Solutrean-Magdalenian transition in El Cierro Cave,' Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 5 (2012), pp. 402 and 406-407","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"}],"source_citations":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 36, accession 07849; David Álvarez-Alonso and María de Andrés-Herrero, 'Solutrean-Magdalenian transition in El Cierro Cave,' Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 5 (2012), pp. 402 and 406-407","source_display":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Relación de piezas de la exposición permanente, I: Los tiempos prehistóricos, p. 36, accession 07849; David Álvarez-Alonso and María de Andrés-Herrero, 'Solutrean-Magdalenian transition in El Cierro Cave,' Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 5 (2012), pp. 402 and 406-407","date_citation_display":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias catalogue p. 36; Álvarez-Alonso and de Andrés-Herrero 2012 pp. 402 and 406–407; Álvarez-Fernández et al. 2024, DOI 10.1007/s41982-024-00179-x, Table 1 and pp. 5–6","object_display":"A flat, elongated worked plaque, rounded and single-perforated near its upper end and tapering slightly toward the other, shown in the museum's accession photograph against a centimetre scale bar; no publication confirms what material it is worked from.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"cueva del","display_name":"El Cierro perforated plaque","image":{"full":"assets/objects/MUS2026-241_el_cierro_07849.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/MUS2026-241_el_cierro_07849_thumb.jpg","credit":"Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, accession 07849 (Cueva del Cierro, Fresno, 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":"El Cierro’s perforated plaque, labelled espátula-bramadera by the Asturias museum."},"slug":"mus2026-241-cueva-del-cierro-fresno-ribadesella"}