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Well, you can, and here is a guide for building a house with green wood: https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/green-wood-zmaz76mjztak https://www.motherearthnews.com/green-homes/green-wood-zmaz7... While it's not wood, per se, you can do it even simpler with bamboo. A lot of poor people in SE Asia build houses with nothing more than a machete (could use a simple stone tool if you like) and access to bamboo and often use organic ties (e.g. waxy leaves) instead of nails to hold it all together. There's no real reason why you couldn't use a similar strategy with wood to allow for some shrinkage.