{"id":"OMERZEL1998-001","label":"Potočka perforated bone point","people_or_site":"Potočka zijalka Aurignacian cave site","country_current":"Slovenia","historic_region":"Potočka zijalka / eastern Karawanks","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"","source_term":"koščena konica z luknjo / brnivka","source_language":"Slovenian / English","object_description":"Long flattened and tapered bone point, Brodar catalogue no. 75, with a single human-made hole at its broad end.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"omerzel1998_potocka_bone_point_75","source_type":"archaeomusicological_review","source_url":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/file/1716/download?token=JcGLxIhd","page_or_plate":"printed pp. 169-170; exact drawing p. 170; Brodar 1983 no. 75","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Potočka zijalka cave entrance anchor; not an object find coordinate.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A hole pierces the broad end of a long bone point from Potočka zijalka, high in the eastern Karawanks - some 35,000 years old. The perforation is human work, and the flattened, tapered blade could catch the air. Galin and Omerzel asked whether a leather cord once turned this weapon into a voice like wind or thunder.","pull_quote":"S konico, navezano na kožno vrv, pa bi lahko fosilni človek ustvarjal zvoke zelo podobne zavijanju vetrov ali grmenju.","pull_quote_translation":"With the point tied to a leather cord, prehistoric people could have made sounds very like the howling of wind or thunder.","pull_quote_cite":"Omerzel-Terlep 1998:170","term_gloss":"brnivka: Slovenian bullroarer or whirring sound-maker; koščena konica z luknjo: perforated bone point","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. 33,000 BC","date_qualification":"Published estimate; object no. 75 is not directly dated.","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"omerzel1998_potocka_bone_point_75, Omerzel Terlep 1998 pp. 169–170; Turk and Turk 2025 pp. 19 and 30 fig. 10, DOI 10.3986/AV.76.17","sources":[{"citation":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, 'Prehistoric stone and bone percussion instruments, scrapers, idiophones, rattles and bullroarers,' Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 169-170, drawing p. 170","url":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/file/1716/download?token=JcGLxIhd","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013032026/https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/file/1716/download?token=JcGLxIhd"},{"citation":"Brodar (1983), object no. 75, via Omerzel-Terlep (1998)"},{"citation":"Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, p. 136, fig. 35, via Omerzel-Terlep (1998)"}],"source_citations":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, 'Prehistoric stone and bone percussion instruments, scrapers, idiophones, rattles and bullroarers,' Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 169-170, drawing p. 170; Brodar (1983), object no. 75, via Omerzel-Terlep (1998); Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, p. 136, fig. 35, via Omerzel-Terlep (1998)","source_display":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, 'Prehistoric stone and bone percussion instruments, scrapers, idiophones, rattles and bullroarers,' Etnolog 8 (1998), pp. 169-170, drawing p. 170; Brodar (1983), object no. 75, via Omerzel-Terlep (1998); Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, p.…","date_citation_display":"Omerzel Terlep 1998 pp. 169–170; Turk and Turk 2025 pp. 19 and 30 fig. 10, DOI 10.3986/AV.76.17","object_display":"Long flattened and tapered bone point, Brodar catalogue no. 75, with a single human-made hole at its broad end.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"poto zijalka","display_name":"Potočka perforated bone point","image":{"full":"assets/objects/OMERZEL1998-001_potocka_point75_p170.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/OMERZEL1998-001_potocka_point75_p170_thumb.jpg","credit":"Mira Omerzel-Terlep, Etnolog 8 (1998), printed p. 170, after M. Brodar 1983","license":"No open license stated; rehosted low-resolution figure for noncommercial research","source_page":"https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/file/1716/download?token=JcGLxIhd","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Omerzel-Terlep’s drawing of Potočka zijalka point 75, with its terminal perforation."},"slug":"omerzel1998-001-potocka-zijalka-aurignacian-cave-site"}