{"id":21377,"date":"2023-01-11T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=222611"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:35:14","slug":"tools-temples-tower-blocks-how-wood-has-shaped-human-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/tools-temples-tower-blocks-how-wood-has-shaped-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools, temples &#038; tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Jon Bauckham\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>For millennia, humans have cut down trees to create buildings, ships, tools, weapons and everyday objects we still use around the home. Author and archaeologist Max Adams tells Jon Bauckham what studying this most resilient of materials can teach us about the history of our species.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-222611-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Toolstemplesandtowerblocks-1002457.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Toolstemplesandtowerblocks-1002457.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/01\/Toolstemplesandtowerblocks-1002457.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Max Adams is the author of <em>The Museum of the Wood Age<\/em> (Head of Zeus, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-museum-of-the-wood-age\/9781788543507&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Museum-Wood-Age-Max-Adams\/dp\/1788543505\/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2N45LY77LGPE0&amp;keywords=max+adams&amp;qid=1665386697&amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0LjA2IiwicXNhIjoiMy44MyIsInFzcCI6IjMuNDQifQ%3D%3D&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=max+ada%2Cstripbooks%2C649&amp;sr=1-10&amp;tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-museum-of-the-wood-age\/max-adams\/\/9781788543507?awc=3787_1673277157_73a448a9bb297bafe3fd3907b0acdee8&amp;utm_source=259955&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=Genie+Shopping+CSS&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Bauckham Published: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 12:00 am For millennia, humans have cut down trees to create buildings, ships, tools, weapons and everyday objects we still use around the home. 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