History of Materials

By Ivan56
  • Period: 8700 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Stone Age

  • Wood/Rock
    6000 BCE

    Wood/Rock

    Early humans made stone tools about 2.6 million years ago. Resources show that fossils have marks from stone used tools to harvest them.
  • Bronze Alloy
    3000 BCE

    Bronze Alloy

    They started to make Mesopotamian daggers, made out of Bronze. Improving the weapons and tools.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2400 BCE

    Bronze Age

    They started to use Bronze tools instead of Stone tools, started making ceramics. Few improvements.
  • Fire
    2739 BCE

    Fire

    Fire provided a source of warmth, protection and a method of cooking up food.
  • Kilns
    2000 BCE

    Kilns

    They used Kilns to heat it up to create Ceramics, which occurs later.
    Clay materials are shaped.
  • Copper Metal
    2000 BCE

    Copper Metal

    It was used to start producing Bronze.
  • Low Ceramics
    1550 BCE

    Low Ceramics

    When They first started to make low tempeture ceramics made out of glass.
  • High Ceramics
    1500 BCE

    High Ceramics

    They started producing High temp Ceramics to create bricks as a resource.
  • Steel alloy
    1400 BCE

    Steel alloy

    Used to make sculptures, resources and tools.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Iron Age

    The Iron Age is divided into two subsections, Iron 1 and Iron 2.
  • Iron metal
    1100 BCE

    Iron metal

    Started to create iron tools and weapons.