The Museum of the Wood Age

Max Adams

The Museum of the Wood Age
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 January 2024
Pages
464
ISBN
9781788543514

The Museum of the Wood Age

Max Adams

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history.

Wood - humankind's long-term partner in our evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny - has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability.

The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of basic devices - wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley - to reveal the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.

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