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Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history
Episode 1553

Tools, temples & tower blocks: how wood has shaped human history

Max Adams reveals why the versatile material has been pivotal to the progress of civilisations across the globe: from the Somerset Levels to Japan

HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate

January 11, 202342m 13s

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Show Notes

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.

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