World’s Oldest Purse Studded with a Hundred Dog Teeth

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The world’s oldest purse 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.

“Over the years the leather or fabric disappeared, and all that’s left is the teeth. They’re all pointing in the same direction, so it looks a lot like a modern handbag flap,” said Friederich, of the Sachsen-Anhalt State Archaeology and Preservation Office.

Photo via Klaus Bentele.
Via Unusual Facts.

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