For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.

At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia, stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic, block of stone. No bricks, no mortar, no concrete, no lumber— just rock sculpted into ...

Wood and stone can cost more than some other materials. Adding a wood ceiling to a room can cost $5,000 to $10,000, Rill said, and installing stone instead of drywall can cost an extra $25 or more ...

Visitors to St. Mary’s Church, a 12th-century parish in Yorkshire, England, will soon be welcomed by a cast of characters from C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia.