The World History of Dinnerware

Please vote for my guide ! Thank YouAbout Two Million years ago, in what is now the Great Rift Valley in Africa, Lucy and Lou a pair of Primitive Hominids were eating in a a area of fruit and coconut trees. Lou, a young male, was eating his meal of fruit and nuts, by going from tree to bush, and scavenging on the ground. The female Lucy picked up, a broken coconut shell and as the young male hopped from tree to bush, grabbing different food, Lucy followed, putting the different items on the half shell till it was full. Then she handed it to her young male friend, and he sat down and ate from the shell, as she watched. When he was done, Lucy took the shell he had tossed away, and cleaned it in a stream. Then she took it back to their tree, to keep and use again. She always remembered her friend, quite fondly when she looked at that old broken shell. Yes this may have been the first use of dinnerware.When the anthropologist searches a cave or early man site, besides bones he is also looking for other signs of early man. Most of the time what he is looking for is small shards of pottery. This pottery is most likely ancient food storage vessels, cookware, and yes, dinnerware.From caveman ruins of Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthals, from the Ancient ruins of the Anastasia of the Southwest United States, the ancient Pyramids of the Arabian Desert, the Mayan ruins of Central America, from every corner and place where man has lived we find the remains of one of mans most prized and used possessions, Dinnerware !For the most part, with the exception of the early Greeks and Romans, most ancient dinnerware or pottery, while spread all over the world, different Cultures had different styles of pottery. You could identify many old tribes by the type of pottery remains you found on their settlement remains. Many ancient peoples valued their pottery and dinnerware so much they were entombed with it! Today, our dinnerware is now commonly called

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