DUARTE2020-001 - archaeological find
Llonín bone plaque
Spain - Llonín Cave - Asturias - Europe
Archaeological datec. 15,000–12,000 BCBroad Middle Magdalenian MM2 cultural range; Level X object not directly dated.
Function not recorded
Source term: possible bull-roarer / bone plaque
The publication uses the English term bull-roarer and later calls it a bone plaque
A needle cache, bone tubes, and a perforated disc clustered around squares H-3 and I-3 at Llonín; among them the excavators list a possible bullroarer. Yet the cave's anterior cone was a moving deposit, capable of mixing material, and the publication alternates between one object and a count of two. The sounding blade survives as a serious possibility inside a difficult stratigraphy.
a perforated bone disc and a possible bull-roarer appeared in the same square
Duarte Matías and de la Rasilla Vives 2020:331
- Object
- Bone plaque from square H-3 at depth -900/-935 cm, recorded with an irregular fracture consistent with excavation refit; the publication does not illustrate the object.
- Function
- Not recorded.
- Source
- Elsa Duarte Matías and Marco de la Rasilla Vives, The bone industry collections from La Viña and Llonin (2020), exact narrative and tables
- Source location
Page references
printed p. 331; Tables 5-6; synthesis p. 349
- Source confidence
- medium Approximate Llonín cave anchor near La Molinuca; not a square-level coordinate.