Animal glue came to be used only in the New Kingdom period. These joints were strengthened using pegs, dowels and leather or cord lashings. Mortise and tenon joints are attested from the earliest Predynastic period. Ĭommonly used woodworking tools included axes, adzes, chisels, pull saws, and bow drills. The metal used by the Egyptians for woodworking tools was originally copper and eventually, after 2000 BC bronze as iron working was unknown until much later. Tombs represent a large collection of these artifacts and the inner coffins found in the tombs were also made of wood.
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. There is significant evidence of advanced woodworking in ancient Egypt.
Wooden idols from the La Tène period are known from a sanctuary at the source of the Seine in France. The site of Fellbach-Schmieden in Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the Iron Age. Since Neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture wells at Kückhofen and Eythra.Įxamples of Bronze Age wood-carving include tree trunks worked into coffins from northern Germany and Denmark and wooden folding-chairs. The spears from Schöningen ( Germany) provide some of the first examples of wooden hunting implements. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.Īmong early finds of wooden tools are the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-Sea and Lehringen. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making ( cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.Īlong with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures.
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