How The Flintstones Invented Furniture

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The caves our ancestors moved in after coming down from the trees didn’t have parquet flooring. Oh no, they were dirty and full of rocks of different sizes. Where did the Flintstones put the mammoth cutlet after taking it out of the fire? They put it on a rock with an even surface, of course, thus inventing the table. In the beginning they squatted round it during their meals but one day a member of the tribe sat down on a smaller stone and discovered that that was more comfortable and with this action the chair was born. Where to keep the provisions what with hungry sabretooth tigers and other beasts lurking in the vicinity? Fred and Wilma Flintstone put them into natural clefts into which they had hewn some steps so that the things wouldn´t all be muddled up and rolled a stone in front of them – cupboard and shelves in one. I’m sure Wilma had more than one fur dress and made Fred build her a wooden chest in which she could keep her spare outfit. Up to the Renaissance clothes were folded and kept in chests. Only later wardrobes were invented and clothes hung on coat-hangers. Did the Flintstones have beds? Well, first they used to lie on the ground which they had made a bit softer by putting several layers of grass, leaves and furs on it. When they got older and their bones creaked whenever they lay down or got up from the ground, they either looked for a ledge big enough for their bodies or they built a raised construction out of rocks on which they could put their bedding. The material has changed, some knick-knack has been added, but on the whole that’s what we still have nowadays, isn’t it?