The Tower Of The Ruins Of Jericho - 858 Words

Stairs are one of the oldest structures in architectural history. They have always been an important part of a building or structure because without them you wouldn’t be able to get from the bottom to the top or vice versa. There is no actual answer of when the very first set of stairs was created. But there has been several sources say that the oldest surviving stairs are found in the ruins of Jericho. There are claims that these stairs are over 7,000 years old. This could mean that stairs were at the very birth of civilization itself. One of the first types of stairs used in history were not made on purpose but were just worn down when they were used as rocks to climb on or foot holes to get around easier. There was a time when chopped wood trunks constructed together to make levels, but these were not used in buildings, they were used to overcome the difficulties of the harsh terrain of the mountains and valleys. These were used as a survival tool the less time you had moving around in the harsh woods when you could use the tree trunks to get to a higher and safer place. At the start stairs ad started off as a survival tool, then moved onto having purpose for people to get from on area to another used a necessity in a building or structure, to being the core design feature of a building. They were made only for a purpose not for a design feature of a structure. The changes in stairs have varied over the years as to who designed them and the different trends ofShow MoreRelatedThe Birth of Civilization18947 Words   |  76 Pagesthis village pattern. Çatal Hà ¼yà ¼k, in a fertile agricultural region of present-day Turkey, was a large town with astonishingly diversified agriculture, arts, and crafts. At an oasis near the Dead Sea, the town of Jericho was surrounded by a massive stone wall with at least one tower against the inner face. No other Neolithic settlement has been found with fortifications. These two sites show that the economies and settlement patterns of the Neolithic period may have been more complicated than