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

Original: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/110898039703393391

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    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?