Editing Packaging (section)

===Ancient era===
[[File:Ritual wine vessel - The Met.png|thumb|right|Bronze wine container from the 9th century BC]]
The first packages used the natural materials available at the time: [[basket]]s of reeds, wineskins ([[bota bag]]s), [[wooden box]]es, pottery [[vase]]s, ceramic [[amphora]]e, wooden [[barrel]]s, woven bags, etc. Processed materials were used to form packages as they were developed:  first [[glass]] and [[bronze]] vessels.  The study of old packages is an essential aspect of [[archaeology]].

The first usage of paper for packaging was sheets of treated mulberry bark used by the [[History of China#Ancient China|Chinese]] to wrap foods as early as the first or second century BC.<ref name="OSU">{{cite web |last= Paula|first= Hook|date=11 May 2017|title=A History of Packaging|url=https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/cdfs-133|publisher=Ohio State University|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>

The usage of paper-like material in Europe was when the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] used low grade and recycled [[papyrus]] for the packaging of [[incense]].<ref name="CHARM2005"/>

The earliest recorded use of paper for packaging dates back to 1035, when a [[Persian people|Persian]] traveller visiting markets in [[Cairo]], [[History of Arab Egypt|Arab Egypt]], noted that vegetables, spices and hardware were wrapped in paper for the customers after they were sold.<ref name="CHARM2005">{{Cite journal|title=The Origins of Paper Based Packaging|author=Diana Twede|journal=Conference on Historical Analysis & Research in Marketing Proceedings|volume=12|year=2005|pages=288–300 [289]|url=http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/charm/CHARM%20proceedings/CHARM%20article%20archive%20pdf%20format/Volume%2012%202005/288%20twede.pdf|access-date=March 20, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716105826/http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/charm/CHARM%20proceedings/CHARM%20article%20archive%20pdf%20format/Volume%2012%202005/288%20twede.pdf|archive-date=July 16, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>