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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... became more populous and , in part at least , more prosperous by virtue of agriculture , they also became more dependent on this form of production . Like the domestication of fire , the control gained by the domestication of plants and ...
... became more populous and , in part at least , more prosperous by virtue of agriculture , they also became more dependent on this form of production . Like the domestication of fire , the control gained by the domestication of plants and ...
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... became harsher and more violent ; instead of ' peaceful peasants ' came ' warriors ' . Surely one is dealing here with the effects upon human history of an immense ecological change wrought unthinkingly by the Neolithic farmers and ...
... became harsher and more violent ; instead of ' peaceful peasants ' came ' warriors ' . Surely one is dealing here with the effects upon human history of an immense ecological change wrought unthinkingly by the Neolithic farmers and ...
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Johan Goudsblom. AFTER SLASH AND BURN : INCREASED OR DECREASED PRODUCTIVITY ? As people became more numerous and arable land became scarcer , food production was intensified , and farmers began to suppress the natural vegetation by means ...
Johan Goudsblom. AFTER SLASH AND BURN : INCREASED OR DECREASED PRODUCTIVITY ? As people became more numerous and arable land became scarcer , food production was intensified , and farmers began to suppress the natural vegetation by means ...
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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