Archaeologists find medieval feeding bottles in northwest Russia

Ria Novosti ^ | May 26, 2008

[rdl6989]

VELIKY NOVGOROD, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Archaeologists have made a rare find of a number of medieval baby bottles at excavations in Veliky Novgorod, an ancient city in northwest Russia, a scientist said on Monday.

"Similar bottles are rarely found in excavations, and here we have already discovered... three of them,"

Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns. A baby drank the milk from a hole made on the tip of a horn.

Novgorod is one of the most ancient cities of the Eastern Slavs. It was first mentioned in the Sofia First Chronicle in 859, while the city's chronicle says by 862 it was already a major trading route between the Baltics to Byzantium.

[rdl6989]

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Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns

Art imitating nature. Sort of.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I didn’t think 9th century A.D. counted as “ancient.” Am I missing something?

[rdl6989]

That’s an interesting point. Is there a carved in stone definition of “ancient”? I always thought ancient meant before the fall of the Roman Empire.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I think of 4th century B.C. as the heyday of classical Greece, and you have to go back a few centuries to get to ancient Greece. The Roman Empire existed in a classical period. Ancient Rome would have to be the Republic or earlier.

I'm just talking out of my hat here.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns. A baby drank the milk from a hole made on the tip of a horn.

Elsewhere using (ram) horns, the Jews made Shofar trumpets. ... Leather bags? Maybe the first bagpipe was a Shofar-maker gone to the dark side. (Sorry, Sionnsar, LOL)

No mention of how Rube Goldberg might have helped his wife with nursery matters.

Cows. They make ice cream and steak! Good for the baby, great on a plate.




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“Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns.”

Microwavable too!

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If there were not enough feeding bottles to go around, it would be interesting to see which one of the infants would horn in to be first on the feeding line.

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