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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... agrarian societies seemed to condemn the majority of their members to an existence full of hardship into which they ... societies more formidable than those whose subsistence was based on foraging or on shifting cultivation . This point ...
... agrarian societies seemed to condemn the majority of their members to an existence full of hardship into which they ... societies more formidable than those whose subsistence was based on foraging or on shifting cultivation . This point ...
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Johan Goudsblom. 4. FIRE IN SETTLED AGRARIAN SOCIETIES DOMINANT TRENDS The emergence of agriculture and the raising of livestock ushered in a new era in human history . From now on , fire was no longer the only non - human source of ...
Johan Goudsblom. 4. FIRE IN SETTLED AGRARIAN SOCIETIES DOMINANT TRENDS The emergence of agriculture and the raising of livestock ushered in a new era in human history . From now on , fire was no longer the only non - human source of ...
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... agrarian societies there was also a class of priests which sometimes even claimed priority over the warriors , entitling themselves the ' highest caste ' or the ' first estate ' ; there was a class of artisans ... Agrarian Societies 57.
... agrarian societies there was also a class of priests which sometimes even claimed priority over the warriors , entitling themselves the ' highest caste ' or the ' first estate ' ; there was a class of artisans ... Agrarian Societies 57.
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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