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Originally Posted by botsapper
...Mud and straw may be the first composite, discovered by accident in a pile of debris?
Early man's discovery of the first composite material was...animal dung. It was abundant, formable and and relatively durable & lighter weight-to-strength ratio. The excreted binding cellulose held other mixed-earth building materials.
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And the dung beetle was the inspiration for the wheel.
regards
mech