Editing Comb (section)

{{Short description|Toothed device used for styling, cleaning and managing hair and scalp}}
{{Other uses}}
[[Image:Plastic comb, 2015-06-07.jpg|thumb|A typical plastic comb]]

A '''comb''' is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the [[hair]] to clean, untangle, or style it.  Combs have been used since [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating back to 5,000 years ago in [[Persia]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ninevehandperse02vauxgoog|title=Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries|last=Vaux|first=William Sandys Wright|date=1850|publisher=A. Hall, Virtue, & Company|language=en}}</ref>

Weaving combs made of whalebone dating to the middle and late [[Iron Age Europe|Iron Age]] have been found on archaeological digs in [[Orkney]] and [[Somerset]].<ref>Helen Chittock, “Arts and crafts in Iron Age Britain: reconsidering the aesthetic effects of weaving combs,” ''Oxford Journal of Archaeology,'' 33 (3) August 2014, pp.315-6.</ref>