![]() ![]() Scratch that last line, and let's move on. We owe our very existence to the fact that we got wood!. And mankind thrived once we had tools, shelter and hunting weapons. It is kinda all we had when we began making stuff out of more than just our own dung. Of course some of the first wedding rings were made of wood (and bone/antler, but that's another post). Sure, you may have spent the better parts of your high school days earning that C minus in metal shop, but you started out cobbling together that crappy wooden birdhouse your mother swore was perfect. Long before man mastered the art of carving stone into spears or mining iron ore to smelt into kick-ass battleaxes, wood was there to provide our most basic tools and supplies. Wood is one of the most common, easily obtained and versatile materials on the planet. ![]() While the article doesn't give an exact age of said rings, it does leave the impression they are, I believe the scientific term is, "old as when you stop to think about it, it makes perfect sense. ![]() It's 1887, and this dude is talking about rings, sitting in a museum that had been open for almost 130 years already. The British Museum has rings of bone and of hard wood, found in the Swiss lakes." "The materials of which wedding-rings have been composed are as diverse as the nations which have used the ring. Let's just start off with a little quote from author David Russell McAnally from his article in Popular Science Monthly, November 1887:
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