Baby bottles may go back millennia in Europe

Early farmers used vessels with spouts to wean infants, scientists suggest

ancient baby bottles

Some small clay vessels found at early European farming sites, such as these 3,200- to 2,800-year-old artifacts, may have been used to feed animal milk to human infants.

 

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Three spouted vessels from graves in ancient European cemeteries may have come from the mouths of babes.