ABSTRACT
Packaging began when early man needed some way of carrying items from one place to another. Large solid objects could be carried unpackaged, but liquids and powders required some form of container. Thus began the first and most fundamental function of the package: containment of a product. Since some of these packaged items were not consumed all at once, some way of dispensing part of the contents and preserving the rest for later use was needed, leading to the second and third basic package functions: dispensing and preservation/protection.
