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		c. 15,000 years ago
		Needles of bone or ivory are now fine enough to take a thread as thin as horse hair

		c. 8000 BC
		The spindle develops naturally in the process of twisting fibres into thread by hand

		c. 7000 BC
		Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper - the first tentative step out of the Stone Age

		c. 4400 BC
		The first evidence of a loom comes from this period in Egypt, but some simple method of holding the warp must be as old as weaving

		c. 4000 BC
		A simple hand-held plough is in use in Egypt and Mesopotamia, at least 1000 years before a heavier version is pulled by oxen

		c. 3000 BC
		The lever is in use in both Mesopotamia and Egypt

		c. 3000 BC
		Wheels are in use on carts, particularly where wood is easily available and the ground rough - as in the forests of Europe

		c. 3000 BC
		Potters in Mesopotamia turn their pots on wheels

		c. 2850 BC
		The Chinese discover that the cocoon of a certain worm can be unwound, spun as thread and then woven - thus creating silk

		c. 2800 BC
		Objects are cast in bronze, at Ur in Mesopotamia - introducing what is later called the Bronze Age

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