Today, when we build a house, one of the first things we do is go to flooring stores and consider what type of flooring we want for our space. We walk into a home and look at the floor tiles; we comment on the carpeting; we admire the stone flooring; we go to flooring stores and get ideas for upgrading our own. But human beings didn’t always have flooring like this. Ancient Flooring The first floors were simply a patch of ground. This was especially the case in climates where it was warm enough year-round that no one really cared…