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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88. oldal
... Israelites had defeated the Amorites , they burned their cities ( Numbers 21 : 28 ) , and that they did likewise to other peoples ( 31 : 10 ) . Jericho suffered the same fate : ' They burnt the city with fire , and all that was therein ...
... Israelites had defeated the Amorites , they burned their cities ( Numbers 21 : 28 ) , and that they did likewise to other peoples ( 31 : 10 ) . Jericho suffered the same fate : ' They burnt the city with fire , and all that was therein ...
89. oldal
... Israelites did not have iron , while their adversaries did : ' Now there was no smith found throughout all the land ... Israelites and the Philistines in order to make the victory of the Israelites look all the more impressive and ...
... Israelites did not have iron , while their adversaries did : ' Now there was no smith found throughout all the land ... Israelites and the Philistines in order to make the victory of the Israelites look all the more impressive and ...
95. oldal
... Israelites at that time had very little direct contact , and they rarely referred to each other in their writings . Their common neighbours , the Phoenicians or Canaanites , appear in a very different light , and even under different ...
... Israelites at that time had very little direct contact , and they rarely referred to each other in their writings . Their common neighbours , the Phoenicians or Canaanites , appear in a very different light , and even under different ...
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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