Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 oldal Fire is a destructive force. It is also a great purveyor of the advancement of human life. In an exploration of this dichotomy, Goudsblom investigates man and his realtionship to--and fascination with--combustion from every possible perspective--historical, archaeological, anthropological, psychological, biological, ecological, and sociological--illuminating the legacy of fire on world history. |
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122. oldal
... Christians were still regarded as a pernicious sect , whose members could be used as scapegoats when rumours started ... Christianity had begun , as Tacitus knew , in Palestine , with the teachings of an Israelite known as Christ ...
... Christians were still regarded as a pernicious sect , whose members could be used as scapegoats when rumours started ... Christianity had begun , as Tacitus knew , in Palestine , with the teachings of an Israelite known as Christ ...
123. oldal
... Christ to explain this parable , he answered : He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ; The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ; The enemy that ...
... Christ to explain this parable , he answered : He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ; The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ; The enemy that ...
130. oldal
... Christian world . Religion apparently has become a decisive element in people's identity . This is very different from the situation in the ancient world . The religion of the Egyptians was named after Egypt ; one would not name the ...
... Christian world . Religion apparently has become a decisive element in people's identity . This is very different from the situation in the ancient world . The religion of the Egyptians was named after Egypt ; one would not name the ...
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Fire Civilization The domestication of fire as a civilizing process Plan | 8 |
The stage of predominantly passive use of fire The transition to active use of fire | 20 |
The widening gap between humans and other animals Clearing land Cooking | 37 |
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According agrarian societies altar ancient animals anthropologist archaeologist arson became behaviour bush caused chimpanzees civilizing campaign civilizing process combustion conflagrations continued control fire control of fire control over fire cooking cultivation cultural destruction domestication of fire dominant early ecological effect Elias Elijah Empire energy fire brigade fire regime flames force forest fuel gathering and hunting Greek fire handling fire Hanunóo Hattusa hearth heat Hephaestus Herodotus Hesiod Hestia highly historian hominids Homo erectus houses human groups Iliad incendiarism increasing increasingly individual industrial intensive growth Israel Israelites Jones land later learned light living long run Lord military military-agrarian modern Molech natural Norbert Elias nuclear fusion Odysseus organization peasants Perlès population priests problem production pyrophytes religion Roman Rome set fire Shifting Cultivation slash and burn smoke social socio-cultural steam technical temple towns trend twentieth century urban weapons Western Europe wood