You could readily make a chronol-ogy of human history based on materials, going from the remote Stone Age through eras defined by colored and black pottery, bronze, iron, and plastic, right up to silicon (for semiconductors) in the 20th century.
人類的歷史若以材料來分期，從遠古的石器時代、彩陶、黑陶、青銅、鐵、塑膠，一路走到了 20 世紀半導體矽的時代。