Embedded in dirt, dog teeth may have studded an ancient purse, whose textile has disintegrated. [ Photograph courtesy Klaus Bentele, LDA Halle ]
Posted on 06/30/2012 6:07:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The world's oldest purse may have been found in Germany -- and its owner apparently had a sharp sense of Stone Age style.
Excavators at a site near Leipzig (map) uncovered more than a hundred dog teeth arranged close together in a grave dated to between 2,500 and 2,200 B.C.
According to archaeologist Susanne Friederich, the teeth were likely decorations for the outer flap of a handbag...
The dog teeth were found during excavations of the 250-acre (100-hectare) Profen (map) site, which is slated to become an open-pit coal mine in 2015.
So far the project has uncovered evidence of Stone and Bronze Age settlements, including more than 300 graves, hundreds of stone tools, spear points, ceramic vessels, bone buttons, and an amber necklace.
Thousands of finds from later periods -- including the grave of a woman buried with a pound (half a kilogram) of gold jewelry around 50 B.C. -- have also turned up.
Even among such a rich haul, the purse is something special, according to Friederich, who managed the excavation project. "It's the first time we can show direct evidence of a bag like this."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Embedded in dirt, dog teeth may have studded an ancient purse, whose textile has disintegrated. [ Photograph courtesy Klaus Bentele, LDA Halle ]
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Ain’t that something?
It’s a wonder, it is.
Curious and thankfully they weren’t human teeth!
Wonder if the ‘user’ was in style - at the time, lol.
It’s the earliest known doggie bag.
LOL!!!!!
Dang you, I wish I’d thought of that.....lolol!
If Obama carried a purse it would definitely be a doggie bag; he wrote about it in his first rough draft and unreleased book "Dreams From My Prada."
So there were homosexual designers back then.
Yes - and guess what the reason was?
Savages knew they could domesticate dogs PLUS - They tasted good.
An early Korean import.
“Yes - and guess what the reason was?
Savages knew they could domesticate dogs PLUS - They tasted good.”
So 0 can say he had precedent for eating dog.....
“Hey, my bazillionth great granddaddy ate dog so I can too”
Who would have thought, Obama’s dog eating ancestors passed through that area, and the Michelle’s were dressed in style.
"Dog teeth? Sounds delicious!"
An open pit coal mine in Germany?????? WTH?
It’s not a purse! It’s a European carry-all!
The guy that carried that thing was probably manlier than you or I. He’d probably call us gay for using shampoo.
Any word on whether the skeleton in the grave was wearing a boob belt?
Stone Age “beaded” purses. Who knew?
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