Posted on 05/27/2008 3:00:16 PM PDT by blam
Archeologists Discover Unique Things in Veliki Novgorod
27.05.2008
A group of archeologists carrying out diggings in Veliki Novgorod have found several ancient feeding bottles for babies.
The finds were discovered at the digging site in Mikhailova Street. Here the archeologists found wooden feeding devices made of cow horns. The Slavs used to attach leather sacks with milk to the broad ends of hollow horns and their babies would suck the milk through holes in the narrow part of horns.
It is interesting to note that not far from the archeological excavation site there is a working municipal kindergarten.
Almost every year archeologists chance to do some interesting findings in Veliki Novgorod. Thus, three years ago they discovered there birchbark manuscripts bearing unprintable words that became a real sensation.
GGG Ping.
Beat me by minutes
Looks like they accepted a nipple as well. Pig bladder or such I imagine?
Hmmmm
This discovery proves once again why breast milk is superior to bottle milk:
1. It’s always fresh.
2. The cat can’t get at it.
3. And it comes in such a cute little container.
;^)
OK, make up your mind. Were they made of wood or cow horns? (Dimwits on parade?)
Archaeologists find medieval feeding bottles in northwest Russia
Ria Novosti | May 26, 2008
Posted on 05/26/2008 5:20:08 PM PDT by rdl6989
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Thanks Blam. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
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1. They used cow horns with leather bags attached as feeding horns, no wood used.
2. The "unprintable" words are in fact obscene words.
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