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    Woodworking has a long history, with early humans using wood as a material alongside stone and animal parts. Analysis of Neanderthal stone tools shows they were used for woodworking. As civilizations developed, skills in working materials like wood increased. Early wooden artifacts include worked sticks and hunting gear, while later periods produced carved vessels, coffins, chairs and animal statues. Ancient Egypt provides evidence of advanced woodworking, depicted in drawings and through preserved wooden artifacts like furniture. Tools included axes, chisels and saws, joined with pegs, glue or bindings. Rome and China also had significant woodworking traditions, with Rome using wood widely in construction and China developing techniques like joinery without glue or nails.

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    Woodworking has a long history, with early humans using wood as a material alongside stone and animal parts. Analysis of Neanderthal stone tools shows they were used for woodworking. As civilizations developed, skills in working materials like wood increased. Early wooden artifacts include worked sticks and hunting gear, while later periods produced carved vessels, coffins, chairs and animal statues. Ancient Egypt provides evidence of advanced woodworking, depicted in drawings and through preserved wooden artifacts like furniture. Tools included axes, chisels and saws, joined with pegs, glue or bindings. Rome and China also had significant woodworking traditions, with Rome using wood widely in construction and China developing techniques like joinery without glue or nails.

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    Ancient Egypt: Lehringen Kückhofen Fellbach-Schmieden

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    Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early

    humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that


    many were used to work wood. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development
    of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.

    Woodworking shop in Germany in 1568, the worker in front is using a bow saw, the one in the background
    is planing.

    Among early finds of wooden tools are the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-
    Sea and Lehringen. The spears from Schöningen (Germany) provide some of the first examples of
    wooden hunting gear. Flint tools were used for carving. Since Neolithic times, carved wooden
    vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture wells at Kückhofen and Eythra.
    Examples of Bronze Age wood-carving include tree trunks worked into coffins from northern
    Germany and Denmark and wooden folding-chairs. The site of Fellbach-Schmieden in Germany has
    provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the Iron Age. Wooden idols from the La
    Tène period are known from a sanctuary at the source of the Seine in France.

    Ancient Egypt[edit]
    There is significant evidence of advanced woodworking in ancient Egypt.[1] Woodworking is depicted
    in many extant ancient Egyptian drawings, and a considerable amount of ancient
    Egyptian furniture (such as stools, chairs, tables, beds, chests) have been preserved. Tombs
    represent a large collection of these artefacts and the inner coffins found in the tombs were also
    made of wood. The metal used by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was originally copper and
    eventually, after 2000 BC bronze as ironworking was unknown until much later.[2]
    Commonly used woodworking tools included axes, adzes, chisels, pull saws, and bow drills. Mortise
    and tenon joints are attested from the earliest Predynastic period. These joints were strengthened
    using pegs, dowels and leather or cord lashings. Animal glue came to be used only in the New
    Kingdom period.[3] Ancient Egyptians invented the art of veneering and used varnishes for finishing,
    though the composition of these varnishes is unknown. Although different native acacias were used,
    as was the wood from the local sycamore and tamarisk trees, deforestation in the Nile
    valley resulted in the need for the importation of wood, notably cedar, but also Aleppo
    pine, boxwood and oak, starting from the Second Dynasty.[4]

    Ancient Rome[edit]
    Woodworking was essential to the Romans. It provided, sometimes the only, material for buildings,
    transportation, tools, and household items. Wood also provided pipes, dye, waterproofing materials,
    and energy for heat.[5]:1Although most examples of Roman woodworking have been lost, [5]:2 the literary
    record preserved much of the contemporary knowledge. Vitruvius dedicates an entire chapter of
    his De architectura to timber, preserving many details.[6] Pliny, while not a botanist, dedicated six
    books of his Natural History to trees and woody plants, providing a wealth of information on trees
    and their uses.[7]

    Ancient China[edit]
    The progenitors of Chinese woodworking are considered to be Lu Ban (魯班) and his wife Lady Yun,
    from the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 476 BC). Lu Ban is said to have introduced the plane,
    chalk-line, and other tools to China. His teachings were supposedly left behind in the book Lu Ban
    Jing (魯班經, "Manuscript of Lu Ban"). Despite this, it is believed that the text was written some 1500
    years after his death. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions for use in building
    various items such as flower pots, tables, altars, etc., and also contains extensive instructions
    concerning Feng Shui. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glue-less and nail-less joinery for
    which Chinese furniture was so famous.

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