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A Brief History of Our Eating Utensils

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ChopstickS  - around 1180 BCE 5/8

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ChopstickS  - around 1180 BCE

Archaeologists uncovered the oldest pair of chopsticks from the ruins of Yen city, dating back 3200 years to approximately 1180 BCE. It is suspected that the earliest designs of the chopstick were not used as eating utensils but as cooking utensils. The story has it that chopsticks began to be used as eating utensils for two reasons - shortage of resources and religious belief...


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