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The Bats

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OriginChristchurch
New Zealand
Members Robert Scott
Paul Kean
Malcolm Grant
Kaye Woodward
GenresDunedin Sound
Indie Pop
Record labels Flying Nun Records
Little Teddy Recordings
Daddy's Highway
Official site thebats.co.nz
Skos genreAlternative/Indie
Folk
Songs 1997
ListNorth by NorthDaddy's Highway · 1987
Made Up in BlueDaddy's Highway · 1987
Time to Get ReadyThe Law of Things · 1990
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1987
2011
AlbumsDaddy's Highway
Foothills
The Law of Things
Free All the Monsters
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The Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean, Malcolm Grant, Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward. Though primarily a Christchurch band, The Bats have strong links to Dunedin and are usually grouped in with the Dunedin sound musicians that emerged in the early 1980s.

Europe's oldest shoe found in Spanish bat cave

May 17,2023 8:50 pm

By Mattea BubaloBBC News

Scientists say they have identified Europe's oldest shoes, sandals woven from grass thought to be around 6,000 years old.

They were among a haul of ancient objects discovered in a bat Cave In Spain plundered by miners in the 19Th Century , but were analysed in a new study.

Low humidity and cool winds in The Cave kept them unusually well-preserved.

Researchers also analysed baskets and a set of tools.

The objects " are the oldest and best preserved set of plant fibre materials in Southern Europe So Far known. " María Herrero Otal said.

" The technological diversity and The Treatment of raw materials documented highlights the skill of prehistoric communities, " she added.

New dating techniques used showed that The Collection of 76 objects found in The Cave were around 2,000 years older than was previously thought.

Some objects in The Set date back 9,000 years.

The Sandals that were analysed used different types of grass in their structure, researchers said, but also included other materials such as leather and lime.

They date to the Neolithic period, making them older than the 5,500-year-old leather shoes discovered

The Cave the 6,000-year-old sandals were found in was the Cueva de los Murciélagos, or The Cave of The Bats , in Andalusia, south-west Spain.

According to the researchers of this study, The Cave was first accessed in 1831 by a landowner who collected bat guano, or droppings, used to make fertilizer.

Less than two decades later, it was used by miners who, while mining The Cave , discovered a gallery that held partially mummified corpses, baskets, wooden tools, and Among Others - Wild Boar teeth and a unique gold diadem.

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