Talk:Ancient furniture

Dear Wikipedia Editors,
This is my first Wikipedia article, and I hope to be able to continue fine tuning it and watching new changes put into place by my fellow Wikipedians. I believe that this article needs to be separate from the larger furniture article, as it will soon have sections on Rome, Egypt, and the Near East. Moreover, I do not feel that this is specialized information with excessive intricate detail - this is the very minimum of information that is necessary to understand the topic. As a point of comparison, if all of the history of ancient Greek architecture were relegated under Architecture, there would be far too little room for expansion on the topic. Thank you for your time, and once again, I look forward to future dealings with Wikipedia.

Einav.Zamir (talk) 05:24, 5 December 2011 (UTC)Einav.Zamir

Separate article?
The "ancient world" consists of any place that's pre-classical. There are a lot of cultures which developed their furniture throughout the years; changing the furniture's forms from what would be called "primitive" to many modern day people.

Either this is going to be a huge article, or it might be a smaller article that "leads" to the more specific articles. I.e "Ancient Greek Furniture", "Ancient Native American Furniture", "Neolithic Furniture", etc. What do you think? 24.56.179.139 (talk) 18:37, 7 May 2015 (UTC) Artheartsoul1 (talk) 18:41, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Article Needs Serious Expansion
The Ancient world isn't just Rome and Greece. If the article intends to be exclusively about Rome and Greece it should be renamed to something along the lines of "Furniture in Ancient Greece and Rome." If the article intends to be about furniture throughout all of the ancient world, then it needs to be expanded to include China, India, Egypt, Sumeria, etc.
 * Yes, or a rename to Furniture of classical antiquity or Furniture of ancient Greece and Rome or similar. Johnbod (talk) 21:33, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Image
The image in the section about Ancient Israel is from the Upper Paleolithic era. I only put that image there because I had nothing better to put there. Should the image be removed? Ewf9h-bg (talk) 22:22, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

"Most couches and chairs in Ancient Egypt were constructed from animals"
I find the above highly unlikely - did the author mean "animal bones"? Or perhaps what they meant was something like "most couches and chairs were decorated with animal motifs", in which case the sentence needs to be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.172.154.52 (talk) 20:31, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

I fixed the article
I removed all the copyright violations, or at least I think I did, and I created a rewrite. Ewf9h-bg (talk) 19:14, 5 February 2022 (UTC)


 * @Ewf9h-bg Sorry for the delay- upon further examination the copying goes beyond the disertation- I've removed everything copied or too closely phrased to the Jstor book. I know I am asking a lot when I say this, but you should look through every single source you have cited and remove any similarities you find. I will try to help where I can, but I don't believe I'll be able to access all of the sources. Clean up of this article will be a very long process, I'm predicting several weeks given the massive number of sources and current progress. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 06:58, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @Moneytrees🏝️ When you say "look through every single source you have cited" do you mean just the Egypt section or the entire article?
 * @Ewf9h-bg I would say all of the ones you used in the article, or at least the ones you relied on the most when writing the article. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌵CCI guide 03:57, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, please keep your rewrites to Talk:Ancient furniture/Temp- the rewrite happening there will get jumbled with the rewrite happening here if they are worked on separately. Once the /temp page is free of copyright violations, the content there will be pasted on to the main article, so any rewrites on the main article will end up getting removed, or it will take an unnecessary amount of time figuring out what needs to be replaced and what doesn't. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌵CCI guide 05:23, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Progress on copyright issues
I've finished checking the Sumeria section and the Mesoamerica section of the article. The Greece and Rome sections don't need to be checked since they were written by a different user. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌵CCI guide 05:44, 24 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Everything up to Talk:Ancient furniture/Temp has been cleared. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌵CCI guide 04:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I've finished cleaning the text and have moved the rewrite into place. Several edits containing text closely phrased to the source have been removed. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌵CCI guide 21:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)