El Juyo fusiform bone fragment

Source term: zumbador / bramadera

bramadera: Spanish bullroarer; zumbador: buzzer or humming sound-maker

The polished bone plate from El Juyo's Level 4 - about 17,500 to 16,800 years old - has the sleek fusiform outline expected of a sounding blade, but it preserves the wrong half for certainty. Only the blade end survives; the suspension end is gone. The excavators themselves called the bullroarer reading debatable, even as they set the piece among the rare Cantabrian examples.

una discutible función como «zumbador» o «bramadera»

a debatable function as a 'buzzer' or 'bullroarer'

Barandiarán et al. 1985/1987:188

Particulars

Object

Distal fragment of a cut and polished fusiform bone plate from Level 4; only the blade end survives, so the original suspension end cannot be examined.

Function

Not recorded.