Prehistoric #baby feeding vessels: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösensorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC.
Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe.
Photo: Wien Museum
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Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe.
Photo: Wien Museum
🏺 #archaeology
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"Look, here comes the magic flying cow with lovely milk for you! What does the cow say? She says mooo! And doooown she flies, right to baby's mouth!..."
Makes it feel like just yesterday.
As a society we're not as "old" as we think at times.
But. How do we know they are for young kids? After all...
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-discovery-prehistoric-baby-bottles-infants.amp
There is also a study published in nature, if you have access to the the journal
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1572-x
"three small, spouted vessels that were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves of infants in Bavaria"