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
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But how did they get the babies in them
Just like they put ships in glass bottles, silly.
They grow them in there. The opening is just wide enough for an umbilical cord.
No, you’ve misunderstood. They don’t have babies in them they were made out of babies.
Anyone know what evidence is that these were baby bottles?
This article describes bottles found in children’s graves, so maybe similar? I can’t tell if they’re the same bottles, but that would be one way for evidence to point to child bottles specifically. Good question though.
They do appear to be similar to me. They have the spout at the back.
Super cool! I thought wet-nurses and breastfeeding were the only historical options.
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
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?
