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Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest
Oct 5^th, 2025 at 4:40am

A bit arcane, but here goes: nests of bearded vultures in Southern Spain (where the species is now extinct) were analysed, because they often include manmade artifacts from past times, well preserved (eg. early modern or even medieval). Among those, note a fragment from a recognizable split-pouch sling of esparto grass (fig. 1, image A). I hope this link works:

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70191

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IronGoober Interfector Viris Spurii Offline ...and now, No. 1, the larch... Posts: 1994 California Gender:	Re: Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest Reply #1 - Oct 5^th, 2025 at 12:19pm Someone also posted this on Reddit. Very cool. It's interesting how the construction hasn't changed in 600 years.
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erricrice Funditor Offline reformed spaghetti enthusiast Posts: 545 Clearwater, FL	Re: Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest Reply #2 - Oct 5^th, 2025 at 4:53pm Wow yeah very cool! I'm pretty sure that's even the belly/taper on the remaining part of the cord there, just as you'd see it now.
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FloatingFlint Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 142 Germany Gender:	Re: Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest Reply #3 - Sep 13^th, 2026 at 3:54pm Here is a short video (in german) about those vulture nests. At minute 2:55 you can see a "woven band". Could this be a sling or is it just me that sees a sling in every woven band ? https://youtu.be/-hGQgyWoFBc?si=UEEyj_j5aevHmyRz&t=175
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FloatingFlint Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 142 Germany Gender:	Re: Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2026 at 3:58pm Here is the english version: https://youtu.be/-biY95G5z0U?si=slxbXercRilqK31B&t=174 I just realize that the items shown in the video are exactly the items from the first post. So maybe it is the sling from the first post as well?!
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Pocket rock.et Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 132 Gender:	Re: Esparto grass sling found in historical vulture's nest Reply #5 - Sep 14^th, 2026 at 12:35pm FloatingFlint wrote on Sep 13^th, 2026 at 3:58pm: Here is the english version: https://youtu.be/-biY95G5z0U?si=slxbXercRilqK31B&t=174 Oh, thank you! An interesting video and a lot of hard work!
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