Illustration of the Maikop tubes intact with their bull figurines. Viktor Trifonov/Courtesy of Antiquity Publications
But archaeologist Viktor Trifonov had a different theory. He looked to the Sumerians, an early civilization in "If the interpretation is correct, these fancy devices would be the earliest surviving drinking straws to date," Trifonov, who works at the Institute for the History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in a press release.A figure shows how ancient people may have used the Maikop straws to drink from a communal vessel. Courtesy of Antiquity Publications Ltd
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