Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf 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

Original: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/110898039703393391

    • @acockworkorange
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      510 months ago

      Just like they put ships in glass bottles, silly.

    • @blackbrook
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      210 months ago

      They grow them in there. The opening is just wide enough for an umbilical cord.

  • @blackbrook
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    510 months ago

    Anyone know what evidence is that these were baby bottles?

  • janus2
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    310 months ago

    I never really thought about it but it makes sense that parents made cute animal shaped things for babies and children even way back when said things were all made of clay

  • @Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    210 months ago

    As a non-historian, is pre-historic the correct term here? I’ve always thought of it as before the advent of surviving recorded history (5000’ish BCE). Here it would simply be a regional term for before recorded history in the region?