A cradle is an
infant bed which rocks but is non-mobile. It is distinct from a typical
bassinet which is a basket-like container on free-standing legs with wheels. A
carbonized cradle was found in the remains of
Herculaneum
Herculaneum is an ancient Rome, ancient Roman town located in the modern-day ''comune'' of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Like the nearby city of ...
left from the destruction of the city by the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius ( ) is a Somma volcano, somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuv ...
in 79 CE. The
Nahua or
Aztec
The Aztecs ( ) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the Post-Classic stage, post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central ...
people used cradles, with an Aztec ceramic figure of a child in a cradle dated back to between 1350 and 1521 CE.
References
Infancy
Beds
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