Primitive Packaging 3. Early packaging materials - fabricated sacks, baskets, and bags, made from materials of plant or animal origin; wood boxes replaced hollow logs; a clay bowl, the fire-dried clay pots ( the pottery and ceramic trade). 4. The discovery of glass - By 2500 B.C., a hard inert substance in the fire’s remains; glass beads and figures made in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). - About 1500 B.C., the earliest hollow glass objects appeared in Mesopotamia and Egypt.Primitive Packaging 3. Early packaging materials - fabricated sacks, baskets, and bags, made from materials of plant or animal origin; wood boxes replaced hollow logs; a clay bowl, the fire-dried clay pots ( the pottery and ceramic trade). 4. The discovery of glass - By 2500 B.C., a hard inert substance in the fire’s remains; glass beads and figures made in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq). - About 1500 B.C., the earliest hollow glass objects appeared in Mesopotamia and Egypt