No. GALIN1988-002Europe
Vlasac wooden bullroarer
Serbia · Vlasac · Iron Gates (Đerdap), Danube Gorge · Europe
Function not recorded Candidate only
Source term: bull roarer, made of wood
Among four bullroarers Krešimir Galin catalogued from Yugoslavia in 1988 — from an Alpine cave, from Dalmatia, from central Bosnia — the fourth he places at Vlasac, on the Danube in the Iron Gates gorge, and describes in a single clause: it is made of wood. No drawing of it has ever come to light, and no independent account of the object exists anywhere in the Vlasac literature. A wooden bullroarer surviving from Mesolithic or Early Neolithic Vlasac would be remarkable — organic material this old rarely survives at all. The claim stands exactly where Galin left it: named, numbered, and unseen.
The bull roarers of the early Neolithic correspond to comparative specimens of bull roarers found in Bosnia and Hercegovina, from the site of Obre (Fig. no. 37) (A. Benac, 1979, 363), but also from Serbia, at the Vlasac site (D. Srejović, 1979, 75). This example is made of wood (Fig. no. 38).
Krešimir Galin, "Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia," Narodna umjetnost Special Issue 2 (1988), p. 136
Particulars
- Function
- Not recorded.
Source
Krešimir Galin, 'Archeological Findings of Musical Instruments in Yugoslavia,' Narodna umjetnost, special issue 2 (1988): 123-148, at p. 136 and fig. 38, citing D. Srejović, in Praistorija jugoslavenskih zemalja II (Sarajevo, 1979), p. 75