Why do people say we should have something called the "wood age"? Is it that much more important than stone?
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>>18438929wood4sheep
The How One Material Wood Shaped The Whole Age of Human History
>>18438929You stop getting wood after a certain age, or so I've heard, therefore it must be important to some degree
>>18438929Because theyre retarded. We never stopped using wood, and we can't reasonably put a date on when we started, so the age is too long. Its like calling our current age "the age of fire"
Archaeologists probably would have defined a "wood age" if the stuff didn't rotbut leaving postholes is a lot less striking than what stone or iron looks like
>>18438929I don't know if I would go as far as to call for it getting its own era; but I also think it's important to understand the role that wood played in the development of The United States.When Europeans first landed in North America, there was a seemingly endless supply of wood. Pretty soon, wood from Michigan was being sent back to Europe, destined to become the military ships of the European powers; but more importantly, back in America the wood became an endless resource for the early development of the nation.Picture yourself as a farmer. Through the land act of 1820 you buy yourself a piece of land out in the wilderness of Ohio or Michigan. You want to farm it, but there are a bunch of trees in the way. So you cut the trees, build your home and barn with them; then sell any excess for cash at the mill. Meanwhile, the first railroads are being built with wooden rails; the coopers are using the wood to build millions of barrels; even the sawdust and excess trees are being melted down to create potash; which, as luck would have it, was worth a ton of money around the same time.Without wood, it us unlikely that the US would have developed the way it did.
>>18438929You should read the prequel first where he explains these things.
>>18440164This. We know when we picked up and replaced stone, bronze and iron tools, but wood predates modern humans cause we already have evidence of non hominid primates using it. The "Wood age" would be older that humans by millions of years
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