I'll go one further, it was the textile age. Thread (and string and rope and sewing) was the huge technological revolution that shaped humanity. That stuffs even more entropic than wood though.
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“We can probably assume that wooden tools have been around just as long as stone ones, that is, two and a half or three million years,“ he said. “But since wood deteriorates and rarely survives, preservation bias distorts our view of antiquity.” Primitive stone implements have traditionally characterized the Lower Paleolithic period, which lasted from about 2.7 million years ago to 200,000 years ago. Of the thousands of archaeological sites that can be traced to the era, wood has been recovered from fewer than 10.
Why does Americans publishers insist on using strange and "random" object to measure height and length?
Americans will use anything but the metric system.
Anything but the international standard system of units, that is.
This can go two ways:
- well yes, but actually no And -well no, but actually yes
But only for ritual/ceremonial use