The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Whilst the pizza cutter doesn’t actually enable individual pieces of pizza to be cut or split apart, it’s great that all the pieces can be stashed away inside when not in use. Wooden coached what would prove to be his final game in Pauley Pavilion on March 1, 1975, a 93–59 victory over Stanford.

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Felling, chopping, sharpening, hewing, cleaving; these are all the basic actions of pre-historic wood-working techniques, from the Neolithic through to the Iron Age.

On October 14, 2010, the Undergraduate Student Association Council of UCLA held a "John Wooden Day Celebration" to honour Wooden's 100th birthday and to commemorate his contributions to the university. Copper mines of up to 70m exist in the UK dating back as far as c2000BC, while archaeological remains of sword moulds have been discovered in Somerset, dating back to the 12th century BC. While each contained only a small amount of human remains, their size would have required a considerable communal effort.

The object of these raids was not only the theft of wealthy artifacts, but also the capturing of slaves.

The movement away from the ‘hunter/gatherer’, nomadic lifestyle took people in the direction of permanent settlements and a more pastoral way of life. Patterson's portrait was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline "Unexpected Hero". The first fully-synthetic plastic was Bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, who also gave us the term ‘plastics’.

Ennos argues that anthropologists and archaeologists have long overemphasized the importance of stone tools. For many children, Peppa Pig (as bossy as she may be) is a childhood right of passage, loved and adored by preschoolers nationwide.

Following a private ceremony, Wooden was interred with his wife Nellie in an outdoor community mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Lew Alcindor finished his career at UCLA in 1969 with a third consecutive national championship when the Bruins beat George King's Purdue team 92–72 in the title game. The Bruins became the only team in history with back-to-back undefeated seasons as they won their seventh straight championship.

The first three chapters are an unexpected dive into primatology, showing our deep affinity with trees. He had three brothers: [4] Maurice, Daniel, and William, [9] and two sisters, one (unnamed) who died in infancy, [9] and another, Harriet Cordelia, who died from diphtheria at the age of two. It was all uphill after that as the squad repeated as national champions with Gail Goodrich, Kenny Washington, and Doug McIntosh.