Toys

Dolls

• dolls representing infants, animals, and soldiers, as well as representations of tools used by adults are readily found at archaeological sites.
• The earliest and most primitive dolls were simple wooden carvings and bundles of grass.
• Egyptian dolls were sometimes jointed so that their limbs could move realistically.
• By the early 20th century there were dolls that could say “mama”.
• Today there are computerized dolls that can recognize and identify objects, the voice of their owner, and choose among hundreds of pre-programmed phrases to respond.