TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ennos,Roland
TI  - The age of wood: our most useful material and the construction of civilization 
SN  - 9781982114732
AV  - TA419 .E66 2020
U1  - 620.1/209 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Wood
KW  - Trees
KW  - Woodwork
KW  - History
KW  - Building, Wooden
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index; Prologue: The road to nowhere -- Wood and human evolution. Our arboreal inheritance -- Coming down from the trees -- Losing our hair -- Tooling up -- Building civilization. Clearing the forest -- Melting and smelting -- Carving our communities -- Supplying life's luxuries -- Supporting our pretensions -- Limiting our outlook -- Wood in the industrial era. Replacing firewood and charcoal -- Wood in the nineteenth century -- Wood in the modern world -- Facing the consequences. Assessing our impact -- Mending our strained relationship
N2  - A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy
ER  -