We’re all looking for the next Age. We had the Stone Age, a period of assailing animals/fauna with flint. We had the Iron Age. The Bronze Age also; followed up much later on by a Brass Age in the 1970s when horse brasses were used substantially to decorate pubs serving Watneys ale. All revolutionary ages of man profoundly marked by the adoption of a new material. A lot of us, however, little realise that we are in fact sitting in an Age at this very moment. The MDF Age.
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The earth has yielded fragments of artefacts from the Iron and Bronze Ages over the millennia. A section of Sphinx nasal flange here, an Assyrian grouter there. But the MDF Age promises to be far more instant for future archaeologists. A few years on from the make-overs of the Changing Rooms era there will be countless houses falling apart, yielding fragments of MDF. Archaeology will enter a new phase where it will not be so very distinguishable from ‘tidying up’.
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