Whatever Happened To The "Wood Age"?

[Lynn O. Doughty]

Reading through various stages of human development we hear all about the Stone Age, The Iron Age, you name it and they probably have an "Age" for it but I've never heard anything about a "Wood" age. What happend that that period?

[chuckbolton]

the first wood age burned away and the second one came after humans began using tools and it whittled away.

[flyfisher]

I'll go out on a limb and say you're barking up the wrong tree if you're looking for answer from this group. Let's just leaf it at that.

[mdallensr]

Maybe it's still ahead of us, or at least a resurrection of the wood age. What goes around, comes around, and now, a lot of our high-tech materials are out of favor. Plastics are oil-based, and that's a real concern for price and availability. Now, the Green Initiative is pushing to get rid of PVC, the cheapest and most common plastic we use. With metal prices exploding upward, wood could become more favorable. We had this huge push to adopt steel framing for housing, and now steel is so expensive, good old wood studs may be the best way to go. Go figure. Mike

[Grimnir]

Horn was the plastic of the middle ages, perhaps it will be the plastic of the future too

[dart]

The Cavemen stacked up the Stones around the Wood and used that to make the Iron. That's what happened.Star Wars

[sccarnes]

did you ever hear of the
Sahara forest?
look it up, it's next to man with the ax
SAM

[Buckskin]

Hmmmmm... kind of hard to chop down a tree with a branch......

but you could lever a stone with it....

[Eddy-Smiles]

It passed into antiquity just like us!

[susieq]

Wood is ageless..... it has been the "wood age" from the beginning of time. We just take it for granted. The stone age man chipped flint to make a spear head but what did he mount it on? Wood. Most early weapons were made at least partly with wood....catapolts (sp?), cross bows and long bows, arrows, battering rams. Even the Trojan Horse. It was the earliest fuel. It was also probably one of the earliest art mediums but examples didn't survive..... Boats? wagons, wheels.... the frame work for skins to lay on for tee pees to modern day construction, and my favorite, oak barrels to age Jack Daniel's in.... Sorry, I had to through that in there.

I think the wood age runs the whole existance of mankind. It won't be over until we are. Cheers.