PEUR2026-004 - archaeological find
Raymonden / Chancelade
France - Dordogne - Chancelade; Magdalenian superior - Europe - Upper Paleolithic
Function not recorded
bramadera / rhombe Spanish
Source term: bramadera fragmentaria
bramadera (Spanish) / rhombe (French): a bull-roarer.
Etymology. Spanish bramadera (French rhombe), "the roarer," comes from bramar, to bellow or roar. (medium confidence)
The famous engraved bone from the Raymonden shelter at Chancelade, in the Dordogne, is usually read as a butchery scene: tiny schematic men ranged along a barred line taken for a bison's spine, with the animal's head, vertebral column and a pair of legs all that remain of it, and a broken suspension hole at one end. Ignacio Barandiarán Maestu sets it instead among the thirty-odd recognized Paleolithic bone bull-roarers of southwest Europe. He counts two decorated “pendant” fragments from poorly controlled nineteenth-century digs — this one and another from the grotte des Eyzies — as bramaderas fragmentarias, the Raymonden piece assigned on the style of its figures to the upper Magdalenian. It shares a rare detail with the bull-roarers of El Pendo and Bourrouilla: rather than a simple hole, its suspension end is worked into a subcircular ring set off by lateral notches. The shelter was dug by M. Hardy and M. Féaux in 1887-88, and the object is now in the museum at Périgueux. Whether the plaque was ever whirled on a cord or only hung as an ornament, Barandiarán leaves open.
sendos trozos de ‘colgantes’ decorados (me parecen bramaderas fragmentarias) de Raymonden/Chancelade y de ‘grotte des Eyzies’ se recuperaron en excavaciones no bien controladas del XIX y, atendiendo al estilo de sus figuras, se han adscrito respectivamente al Magdaleniense superior y al Magdaleniense final
two pieces of decorated ‘pendants’ (to me they look like bull-roarer fragments) from Raymonden/Chancelade and from the ‘grotte des Eyzies’ were recovered in poorly controlled nineteenth-century excavations and, going by the style of their figures, have been assigned respectively to the upper Magdalenian and the final Magdalenian
Barandiarán Maestu 2015, La bramadera de hueso, Kobie BAI 6:152
- Object
- A decorated, engraved bone pendant fragment, its suspension end worked into a subcircular ring with lateral notches.
- Function
- Whirled-cord aerophone candidate; site-level member of the Southwestern European Paleolithic bramadera corpus.
- Map confidence
- low_medium - Raymonden/Chancelade site coordinate; not object-level provenience GPS.
- Source location
- p. 152 and n. 12