Showing posts with label Oliver Rackham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver Rackham. Show all posts

04 January, 2009

17. Not Seeing the Wood or the Trees

Prehistoric material culture was mostly made of wood, yet most archaeologists largely have studied the inorganic aspects of culture, since timber so rarely survives. However, it is still important to consider where the wood that we didn't find came from.