{"id":"TRUHELKA1904-001","label":"Donja Dolina perforated stone blade","people_or_site":"Donja Dolina pile-dwelling site","country_current":"Bosnia and Herzegovina","historic_region":"Donja Dolina pile-dwelling, Sava riverbed near Bosanska Gradiška","macroregion":"Europe","local_name":"Wetzstein","source_term":"Wetzstein / whetstone","source_language":"German (Truhelka); English (Galin)","object_description":"A broad, elongated blade of fine-grained stone, rounded and gently tapering, with a small perforation near one end.","function_summary":"Sharpening, per the excavator's original whetstone identification.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"truhelka1904_donja_dolina_perforated_whetstone_bullroarer","source_type":"archaeological_report","source_url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_9_1904_0003-0170.pdf","page_or_plate":"Truhelka 1904, printed p. 65, Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19; Galin 1988, p. 136 (no figure number assigned by Galin)","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Donja Dolina village anchor (Wikipedia gazetteer, 45°08'N 17°25'E), Gradiška municipality, Republika Srpska; the pile-dwelling's own excavated riverbed position within the Sava is not given as separate coordinates in Truhelka 1904 beyond the village name.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"At the Sava-riverbed pile dwelling of Donja Dolina, a small hole near one end allowed this fine-grained stone blade to travel on a cord. Its broad, tapering body sits at the boundary between two possible lives: sharpening the edge of a knife or sounding through the air.","pull_quote":"Zur zweiten Gattung gehören kleinere Wetzsteine aus feinkörnigem Material zum Schleifen von Messern und dergleichen. Einzelne darunter sind durchlocht und werden an Schnüren getragen (Taf. XXXVIII, Fig. 19).","pull_quote_translation":"The second class consists of smaller whetstones of fine-grained material for sharpening knives and similar things. Some among them are perforated and carried on cords (Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19).","pull_quote_cite":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Der vorgeschichtliche Pfahlbau im Savebette bei Donja Dolina,\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 9 (1904), p. 65","term_gloss":"Wetzstein — German for “whetstone.”","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":"assemblage","date_display":"c. 1200–1 BC","date_qualification":"Late Bronze Age–La Tène site assemblage; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"broad_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"truhelka1904_donja_dolina_whetstones_bullroarers, Truhelka 1904 p. 65 and pl. XXXVIII fig. 19; Galin 1988 p. 136","sources":[{"citation":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Der vorgeschichtliche Pfahlbau im Savebette bei Donja Dolina,\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 9 (1904), pp. 3-170, printed p. 65 and Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","url":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_9_1904_0003-0170.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20220619144431/https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_9_1904_0003-0170.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Der vorgeschichtliche Pfahlbau im Savebette bei Donja Dolina,\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 9 (1904), pp. 3-170, printed p. 65 and Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","source_display":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Der vorgeschichtliche Pfahlbau im Savebette bei Donja Dolina,\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 9 (1904), pp. 3-170, printed p. 65 and Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19; Krešimir Galin, \"Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,\" Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136","date_citation_display":"Truhelka 1904 p. 65 and pl. XXXVIII fig. 19; Galin 1988 p. 136","object_display":"A broad, elongated blade of fine-grained stone, rounded and gently tapering, with a small perforation near one end.","function_display":"Sharpening, per the excavator's original whetstone identification.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"donja dolina","display_name":"Donja Dolina perforated stone blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/TRUHELKA1904-001_truhelka1904_plXXXVIII_fig19.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/TRUHELKA1904-001_truhelka1904_plXXXVIII_fig19_thumb.jpg","credit":"Ćiro Truhelka, \"Der vorgeschichtliche Pfahlbau im Savebette bei Donja Dolina,\" Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus Bosnien und der Herzegowina 9 (1904), p. 65, Plate XXXVIII, Fig. 19","license":"Public domain (1904 publication)","source_page":"https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Wiss-Mitt-Bosnien-Hercegovina_9_1904_0003-0170.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Donja Dolina perforated stone blade, published as a whetstone and later read as a possible bullroarer."},"slug":"truhelka1904-001-donja-dolina-pile-dwelling-site"}