The museum of the wood age / Max Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Max, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wood--Utilization--History.

Wood.

Woodwork--History.

Woodwork.

Building, Wooden--History.

Building, Wooden.

Wood--Utilization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 441 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Wood age

Place of Publication:

London : Head of Zeus/Apollo, 2022.

Summary:

As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley and in so doing reveals 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.

Contents:

A wood age timeline

The museum of the wood age

Ecologies

Physics

Transformations

carpenters

Frame works

wheelwrights

firebringers

Wave-riders

Complex devices

Complex cultures

Simple things

the end of the wood age

The cutting edge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781788543507

1788543505

OCLC:

1355041245