History of Materials

By Ivan56
  • Period: 8700 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Stone Age

  • 6000 BCE

    Wood/Rock

    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.
  • 3000 BCE

    Bronze Alloy

    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.
  • 2739 BCE

    Fire

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

    Kilns

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

    Copper Metal

    Copper Metal
    It was used to start producing Bronze.
  • 1550 BCE

    Low Ceramics

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

    High Ceramics

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

    Steel alloy

    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.
  • 1100 BCE

    Iron metal

    Iron metal
    Started to create iron tools and weapons.