The Resource The wood age : how one material shaped the whole of human history, Roland Ennos
The wood age : how one material shaped the whole of human history, Roland Ennos
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- Summary
- 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 u s on a sweepting 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 civilisastions and our future through the lens of the material that made us. We are products of the Wood Age. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 318 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- 3:
- Losing our hair ;
- 4:
- Tooling up
- Part 2:
- Building civilization.
- 5:
- Clearing the forest ;
- 6:
- Melting and smelting ;
- Prologue:
- 7:
- Carving our communities ;
- 8:
- Supplying life's luxuries ;
- 9:
- Supporting our pretensions ;
- 10:
- Limiting our outlook
- Part 3:
- Wood in the industrial era.
- The road to nowhere
- 11:
- Replacing firewood and charcoal ;
- 12:
- Wood in the nineteenth century ;
- 13:
- Wood in the modern world
- Part 4:
- Facing the consequences.
- 14:
- Assessing our impact ;
- Part 1:
- 15:
- Mending our strained relationship
- Wood and human evolution.
- 1:
- Our arboreal inheritance ;
- 2:
- Coming down from the trees ;
- Isbn
- 9780008318833
- Label
- The wood age : how one material shaped the whole of human history
- Title
- The wood age
- Title remainder
- how one material shaped the whole of human history
- Statement of responsibility
- Roland Ennos
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 u s on a sweepting 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 civilisastions and our future through the lens of the material that made us. We are products of the Wood Age. --
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- Ennos, Roland
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wood
- Human beings
- Technology and civilization
- Label
- The wood age : how one material shaped the whole of human history, Roland Ennos
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 3:
- Losing our hair ;
- 4:
- Tooling up
- Part 2:
- Building civilization.
- 5:
- Clearing the forest ;
- 6:
- Melting and smelting ;
- Prologue:
- 7:
- Carving our communities ;
- 8:
- Supplying life's luxuries ;
- 9:
- Supporting our pretensions ;
- 10:
- Limiting our outlook
- Part 3:
- Wood in the industrial era.
- The road to nowhere
- 11:
- Replacing firewood and charcoal ;
- 12:
- Wood in the nineteenth century ;
- 13:
- Wood in the modern world
- Part 4:
- Facing the consequences.
- 14:
- Assessing our impact ;
- Part 1:
- 15:
- Mending our strained relationship
- Wood and human evolution.
- 1:
- Our arboreal inheritance ;
- 2:
- Coming down from the trees ;
- Control code
- on1238127750
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 318 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780008318833
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1238127750
- Label
- The wood age : how one material shaped the whole of human history, Roland Ennos
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 3:
- Losing our hair ;
- 4:
- Tooling up
- Part 2:
- Building civilization.
- 5:
- Clearing the forest ;
- 6:
- Melting and smelting ;
- Prologue:
- 7:
- Carving our communities ;
- 8:
- Supplying life's luxuries ;
- 9:
- Supporting our pretensions ;
- 10:
- Limiting our outlook
- Part 3:
- Wood in the industrial era.
- The road to nowhere
- 11:
- Replacing firewood and charcoal ;
- 12:
- Wood in the nineteenth century ;
- 13:
- Wood in the modern world
- Part 4:
- Facing the consequences.
- 14:
- Assessing our impact ;
- Part 1:
- 15:
- Mending our strained relationship
- Wood and human evolution.
- 1:
- Our arboreal inheritance ;
- 2:
- Coming down from the trees ;
- Control code
- on1238127750
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 318 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780008318833
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1238127750
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