Most of us have heard about the ages of Bronze and Iron because those materials are useful for making weapons, but Wood played a pivotal roll in human evolution.
Click above to listen to part 3 of Iron, Coal, Wood, featuring Roland Ennos, Professor of biological sciences at the University of Hull and author of The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization.
Iron, Coal, Wood:
Part 1: Jonathan Waldman – Iron’s Infirmity
Part 2: Ruth Goodman – A Coal New World
Part 3: Roland Ennos – Wonders of Wood
