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Archaeologists find medieval feeding bottles in northwest Russia
Ria Novosti ^
| May 26, 2008
Posted on 05/26/2008 5:17:54 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: freepun; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; novgorod; russia; varangians; velikynovgorod
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posted on
05/26/2008 5:20:09 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/26/2008 5:20:37 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow hornsArt imitating nature. Sort of.
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posted on
05/26/2008 5:26:58 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
To: rdl6989
I didn’t think 9th century A.D. counted as “ancient.” Am I missing something?
To: NutCrackerBoy
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.
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posted on
05/26/2008 5:58:09 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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.
To: rdl6989; Alouette; sionnsar; SJackson; Tamar1973; Rennes Templar; LexBaird; mikrofon; lowbridge; ...
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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posted on
05/26/2008 6:08:20 PM PDT
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The Spirit Of Allegiance
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To: rdl6989
“Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns.”
Microwavable too!
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posted on
05/26/2008 6:10:13 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
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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05/26/2008 9:48:15 PM PDT
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punster
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posted on
05/26/2008 10:12:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
From Hamlet:
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
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And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief:...”
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posted on
05/27/2008 7:19:48 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
( Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.)
To: rdl6989
Wow, that is neat. Where there was a will, there was a way.
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posted on
05/27/2008 7:23:38 AM PDT
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Dustbunny
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
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