9,500 years old!
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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!
š¤© 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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!
š¤© 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 AlbuƱol villagers"
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9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 startsā¦ now? -
9,500 years old! And still intact!
Mesolithic woven baskets from Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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 Spainās Cueva de los MurciĆ©lagos (āCave of the Batsā) are Europeās oldest known basketry.
Thanks to the caveās nearāzero humidity, organic materials didnāt 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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