Storing From the Begining
Oct 4th, 2008 by shop-universal-best-buy
Storing From the Begining
The evolution of the storage unit is an idea that us modern day humans do not typically think about. When we want to store goods we have multiple choices on location and design. This was not always the case, the evolution in human development and technology played the key role in how we store our goods today.
The earliest forms of self storing are found in caves. Hominids used caves as a natural storage unit during the Lower Paleolithic period. The Lower Paleolithic period is one of the three classifications scientist has separated the Paleolithic period into. The Lower Paleolithic period extends from around 2.5 million years ago until around 200,000 years ago. The middle Paleolithic period extends from around 200,000 years ago until around 40,000 years ago. The Upper Paleolithic period extends from around 40,000 years ago until the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 years ago. Even though storing began in the Paleolithic period with primitive technology using caves, it is a way of storing we as modern day humans still use today. In a crude way, the cavemen of the Paleolithic period can be credited with the advent of climate controlled storing, the most modern type of storage unit today.
As human civilization advanced from hunter gatherers to farmers the need for storing goods changed. With the development of communities of people living, working, and trading together storing has become more personalized. During this time the invention of clay pots became a great way to store goods. Using this new technology made it easier to transport goods from one location to another and allowed for new types if items to be stored. This allowed for the further advancement in community development as well as trade. As communities grew, technology grew with it, ancient Egypt is a great example. The discovery of new building materials and techniques has led to the large scale building of a community. Not only did this require the men for the construction, but supplies. These supplies needed to be stored, so we now see the first warehousing facility or storage unit being built. The housing of animals in stables, the storing of food for feeding the thousands of men, soldiers, and animals it takes to keep a community growing. If we take a look at the other side of the world we visit the ancient culture of Mayans. Mayans had the same need for storing as ancient Egypt, except for on major difference. The climate in Central America is much more humid than that of the deserts of Egypt. This created a need for more advanced storing technologies. Keeping food such as mesa dry when being stored was very important to the Mayan people. Not only was mesa a main staple of their diet, but also when mesa is stored wet it becomes flammable. Since keeping mesa dry when stored was almost impossible, new techniques in processing the corn and preparing it for storing had to be created. So drying of the corn in the sun to remove the moisture content had to be done first. This shows the correlation between the technology of how to store goods as well as how to process them.
The need for storing of goods has always been a priority of humans. It is the technology of what we store that dictates the evolution of how we store. In addition articles we will follow evolution of the storage unit from the ancient world to the Middle Ages on into modern times.
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Storing From the Begining / Author: royaltyuniverse
