Discovery of prehistoric baby bottles shows infants were fed cow's milk 5,000 years ago
Phys.org - Thu 26 Sep 19How did people look after their children in the Stone Age? It turns out that prehistoric parents may not have been so different to modern mums and dads. Clay vessels that have been found in ...
Thousands-of-Years-Old Baby Bottles Reveal How Ancient Infants Were Fed
Discover Magazine - Wed 25 Sep 19Two Late Bronze Age feeding vessels dated to around 1200– 800 BC. (Credit: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury) Ancient pottery is helping scientists learn how prehistoric parents fed their infants. A ...
Prehistoric babies were weaned using animal milk, study suggests
Cosmos Magazine - Wed 25 Sep 19The findings confirm that spouted clay vessel artefacts were baby bottles. Natalie Parletta reports.
Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany
Newscientist - Wed 25 Sep 19Archaeologists have found traces of animal and human milk in 2500 to 3200-year-old spouted pottery drinking vessels, suggesting they were used to feed babies
Baby bottles may go back millennia in Europe
ScienceNews - Wed 25 Sep 19Europe’s early farmers used spouted vessels to wean infants, an analysis of residue from animal milk left in the containers suggests.
Prehistoric babies fed animal milk in bottles
BBC News - Wed 25 Sep 19Prehistoric babies were bottle-fed with animal milk more than 3,000 years ago, according to new evidence.
First evidence for early baby bottles used to feed animal milk to prehistoric babies
Phys.org - Wed 25 Sep 19A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found the first evidence that prehistoric babies were fed animal milk using the equivalent of modern-day baby bottles.
First evidence for early baby bottles used to feed animal milk to prehistoric babies, ScienceDaily - Wed 25 Sep 19Ancient sippy cup may hold clues about agriculture’s spread in Europe
Ars Technica - Wed 2 Oct 19Earlier weaning thanks to ruminant milk could have increased ancient birth rates.
Tiny, ancient, animal-shaped pots were likely the first baby bottles
ZME Science - Thu 26 Sep 19Tea, plastic-flavored.
Babies Drank from Ancient 'Sippy Cups' Thousands of Years Ago
Livescience - Thu 26 Sep 19Graves of children dating to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in what is now Bavaria held small pots with spouts that were likely used to feed milk to infants and toddlers.
Babies have been drinking milk from bottles for thousands of years. Here's the proof
L.A. Times - Thu 26 Sep 19Small vessels found in the graves of ancient infants were some of the world's oldest baby bottles. New research shows they once contained milk from animals.
Image of the Day: Prehistoric Baby Bottles
The Scientist - Thu 26 Sep 19Infants may have been drinking animal milk from vessels for thousands of years.
Scientists discover the 'world's first baby bottle' in Bavaria
Daily Mail - Wed 25 Sep 19Unearthed in Bavaria, it could not look more different to the sanitised, brightly coloured plastic bottles used by babies today. But the tiny bottle is what ancient babies drank out of 2,500 ...
Scientists identify ancient baby bottles - and some are cute
Reuters - Wed 25 Sep 19Ceramic vessels, sometimes fashioned in whimsical animal forms, were used thousands of years ago as baby bottles to feed infants animal milk, according to scientists, offering an intriguing ...
Prehistoric parents weaned babies with animal milk
CandEN - Wed 25 Sep 19Chemical analysis of 1,000-year-old ceramic bottles suggests that ancient European parents used the vessels to wean their children
3,000-year-old 'baby bottle' discovered in Germany
FOXNews - Wed 25 Sep 19A 3,000-year-old clay container that is described as the world's first "baby bottle" has been unearthed by researchers.
Babies in Prehistoric Europe Drank Animal Milk From Ceramic ‘Sippy Cups'
Gizmodo - Wed 25 Sep 19A chemical analysis of pottery feeding vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages suggests prehistoric European babies and toddlers had diets supplemented with, and possibly replaced by, animal milk, ...
This ancient baby bottle is a 3,000 year-old lesson for today’s designers
Fastcompany Tech - Sat 28 Sep 19Our ancestors designed beautiful, useful products out of natural materials that eventually returned to the earth. We should look to them for guidance.In the In the Bronze and Iron Age, the world ...
Babies drank animal milk from bottles at least 7,000 years ago
UPI - Thu 26 Sep 19Parents were feeding babies animal milk from a bottle as early as the 5th century B.C., according to researchers who analyzed small ceramic vessels from the Bronze Age and Iron Age recovered ...
Bottle Feeding Babies Has Been Done For 7,000 Years
Science 2.0 - Wed 25 Sep 19Though a modern naturalism movement has tried to shame mothers who don't, won't, or can't breastfeed, using bottles of animal milk - the prehistoric version of formula - turns out to be an ancient ...