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The Wood Age - How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History (Paperback)
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The Wood Age - How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R291
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When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees
with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the
incalculable debt humanity owes wood...' John Carey, The Sunday
Times How did the descendants of small arboreal primates manage to
stand on our own two feet, become top predators and take over the
world? In The Wood Age, Roland Ennos shows that the key to
humanity's success has been our relationship with wood. He takes us
on a sweeping ten-million-year journey from great apes who built
their nests among the trees to early humans who depended on wood
for fire, shelter, tools and weapons; from the structural design of
wheels and woodwinds, to the invention of paper and the printing
press. Drawing together recent research and reinterpreting existing
evidence from fields as far-ranging as primatology, anthropology,
archaeology, history, architecture, engineering and carpentry,
Ennos charts for the first time how our ability to exploit wood's
unique properties has shaped our bodies and minds, societies and
lives. He also charts the dislocating effects of industrialism and
explains how rediscovering traditional ways of growing, using and
understanding trees can help combat climate change and bring our
lives into better balance with nature. In the bestselling tradition
of Harari's Sapiens, this unique history of humanity tells the
story of our evolution, our civilisations and our future through
the lens of the material that made us. We are products of the Wood
Age.
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