GaryR
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
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Evidence for sophisticated woodworking 300 thousand (!) years ago.
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Mike G
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Fascinating stuff..........and I particularly like the phrase "preservation bias" to explain why stone tools were assumed to be pre-emminent, and thus we have various stages of "stone age", then "bronze age", then "iron age"........whereas what we actually had was one continuous wood age.
I highly recommend a book called "The Wood Age" by Roland Ennos, which makes that point: that humans were dependant on wood for aeons before we became dependant on stone, and continuously right up the modern day. I'm half way through it, and it's excellent.
I highly recommend a book called "The Wood Age" by Roland Ennos, which makes that point: that humans were dependant on wood for aeons before we became dependant on stone, and continuously right up the modern day. I'm half way through it, and it's excellent.
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AJB Temple
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Yes. It's a good book. Agree re preservation bias too. It's a bit like history - always written by the winner, hence favouring the winner.
Woodbloke
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Now on my Kindle list - Rob
Mike G
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Rob, don't expect it to be about woodworking. It's very much more to do with human history, and the part that timber played in it.
Woodbloke
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That's not a problem Mike, as long as the book has been well written - Rob
Mike G
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It's written by an academic, but written for the general public. It's more popular science, or popular history, than academic work. Well researched and nicely written......and very interesting.