# Stone Age Kitchenware

## Paleolithic

There were literally no kitchenware in paleolithic period except s
tone knife and spoon. People used fire, but they didn't even cook.
The time was an ice age so there were not so many foods at all. An
d people were hunter-gatherers so they didn't want to carry many l
arge heavy tools.

The only cooking methods were barbequing on a large stone and boil
ing water by putting a hot heated stone in. And even boiling was a
late invention.

Stone knife was just a sharp stone. The original form of spoon was
[Seashell] + [Wooden stick]. And people made wooden spoons by subs
tituting the seashell with a wooden chip.


## Neolithic

The invention of pottery was literally the invention of kitchenwar
e. They started to make pots, cups, &c. It was the age of earthenw
are and woodenware. And they started to polish stones and attach a
wooden handle to a stone knife. Although some people used natural
glass like obsidian back then, glass was a rare material.

Chopsticks were first used in 3000BC China. Not surprising since c
hopsticks are just wooden sticks at all. So east Asians used chops
ticks + spoon.

But for the rest of the world, people still used their hands for e
ating. Fork was only invented in 11C. People cut a bread with a kn
ife then ate with hands. Or scooped soup with a spoon.
I think this might be related to the fact that east Asians ate ric
e instead of wheat.

Japanese invented lacquerware during the Jomon period (7000 BC).