History Of Roofing

The History of Roofing

Early humans didn’t have the luxury of early morning coffee, couldn’t hang their feet off the bed before taking the first morning step and the idea of a hot shower had not even been dreamed up yet. They had Mammoth Skin, bark, or deer hide to covering there head. When it came to building dwellings, there were pictures to get ideas from, no blue prints to follow and they couldn’t walk around the neighborhood and see what the Johnson’s were doing. When mankind stopped living in caves they couldn’t call up the nearest construction company and tell the contractor to build a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms. They had to make their dwellings from scratch

The first known roofing was mammoth skin in Siberia in 40,000 BC. But there were lots of different kind it all depended on what they had around them. If they had deer around them than they would use the deer hide of if they had lots of trees than they would use the bark from the trees. In Japan they used bamboo, in China and in the Middle East they used clay tiles. Then in 2,780 BC the Egyptians started to build pyramids. In 2,500 BC the British started to use slate. First people to start to form there own roofs and the Romans they formed there roofs out of copper this was in about 450 BC. As time went on different countries used different things and the homes got much more complex. It was not just a house with four sides and a roof that sloped in on direction. They became wonders of the world like the Taj Mahal and the Chateau Clemenceau. These are great architectural achievements not just in the in the design but in the materials that they had to use. The Taj Mahal is completely made of marble. That alone is pretty impressive. These people did not have cranes, they hade nothing