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