9,500 years old!
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger OMG!
🤩 Unbelievable. And the restaurators' work!And this weaving technique was so good that we have hand-woven bee hives in our small French museum from the 19th century ... still using that weaving style!
Is it known what material they used?
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger @MuseumHalle Wow!!
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@ninawillburger OMG!
🤩 Unbelievable. And the restaurators' work!And this weaving technique was so good that we have hand-woven bee hives in our small French museum from the 19th century ... still using that weaving style!
Is it known what material they used?
@NatureMC They're made from esparto, the grass still used in Spain today to weave baskets!
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@NatureMC They're made from esparto, the grass still used in Spain today to weave baskets!
@saederup Thank you! Fascinating!
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger i want one lolol i love baskets -would be interesting what exacatly are they made of -theres a kind of gras ) bamboo the gypsies still use today in andalusia
-these baskets they make are steril when new without treatment -and last forever if kept dry -can be also washed and dry again to store away when get dirty -@MuseumHalle -
9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
Sorry I just need to double check
You're saying those photos are of the actual 9000 year old baskets
Not modern copies?!
Because that's just mind blowing
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger @MuseumHalle And beautifully executed. Especially the first one.
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger not even wrinkles!
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger @benlockwood @MuseumHalle is the resemblance to a mushroom coincidental? It looks like a cap and a stem!
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Sorry I just need to double check
You're saying those photos are of the actual 9000 year old baskets
Not modern copies?!
Because that's just mind blowing
@sean @ninawillburger @MuseumHalle
Here's a paper on them with more details and pictures:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi3055There was once a lot more, they were originally discovered by 19th century lead miners "The activity of the miners resulted in plant-based objects being burned and scattered around the outside of the cave, while other baskets and objects were distributed among the Albuñol villagers"
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger @MuseumHalle
So the decay starts… now? -
9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@ninawillburger Those baskets look better than I would in overhead lighting.
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Sorry I just need to double check
You're saying those photos are of the actual 9000 year old baskets
Not modern copies?!
Because that's just mind blowing
@sean yes, mind blowing!
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
@Nina Willburger they are in a better condition than some of the baskets i use at home ... -
9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000.Currently on display at @MuseumHalle mastodon.social , on loan from National Museum Madrid.
The special exhibition is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in prehistoric archaeology.
I got a mushroom picking habit in Canberra.
Transporting the picked mushrooms was a challenge.If you see computer files as work-product then you could see these baskets as akin to hard drives.
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