The Bullroarer Atlas

No. KOCH1992-007Europe

Satzkorn whirring blade

Germany · Brandenburg · former Kreis Potsdam · Europe

Function not recorded

Archaeological datec. 9600–4000 BCMesolithic classification only; object not individually dated.
A dark, undecorated Mesolithic bone blade from Wustermark, long and broad with a rounded taper and a hole near one end.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Wustermark Mesolithic bone blade. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image source

Source term: Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon

Schwirrer / Wirbelaerophon: German, "whirrer" and "whirled aerophone" - the archaeological terms for a bullroarer.

Satzkorn is a village swallowed by the northern edge of Potsdam, and somewhere in it a Mesolithic bone whirring blade surfaced. Klaus-Peter Koch counts it among the whirled aerophones of eastern Germany: blades of flat bone, long ovals 13 to 21 centimetres long, pierced at the broader end for the cord. Where the Satzkorn blade rests today is unknown.

Fundliste 7: Aerophone. Wirbelaerophone (Schwirrer) […] Mesolithikum: […] Satzkorn, Kr. Potsdam […]

Find list 7: Aerophones. Whirled aerophones (bullroarers) […] Mesolithic: […] Satzkorn, district of Potsdam […]

Koch 1992:132

Particulars

Object
One of the Mesolithic bone whirring blades of eastern Germany, which Koch describes as long ovals tending to a streamlined form, pierced at the broader end, 13 to 21 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide and under 0.7 cm thick.
Function
Not recorded.

Source

Klaus-Peter Koch, 'Musikarchäologische Quellen aus dem östlichen Deutschland: Zwischenbericht,' Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 75 (1992): 101-136, at pp. 119 and 132 (Fundliste 7)

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.