A traditional Nez Perce cradleboard (1911).

Baby Carriers Were Used 10,000 Years Ago – New Evidence 

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It seems logical enough: even in their earliest history, humans must have needed something to carry their babies around in as they moved from place to place. But because little hard evidence of this exists—no infant-sling fabrics discernible in archeological digs, and very few prehistoric baby burials, besides—it’s been anybody’s guess […]