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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47. oldal
... claim that the Australian Aborigines practised a form of proto - agriculture known as ' firestick farming ' . In a way these labels are , of course , merely a matter of definition . It seems to me , however , that a significant ...
... claim that the Australian Aborigines practised a form of proto - agriculture known as ' firestick farming ' . In a way these labels are , of course , merely a matter of definition . It seems to me , however , that a significant ...
65. oldal
... claim to possess written evidence about any aspect of life in the ancient world . It has to be recorded in the first place ; the recording has to have survived ; and it has to have been rediscovered . With regard to fire , even the ...
... claim to possess written evidence about any aspect of life in the ancient world . It has to be recorded in the first place ; the recording has to have survived ; and it has to have been rediscovered . With regard to fire , even the ...
72. oldal
... claim to describe the history of the Jewish people before the founding of the kingdom of Israel by Saul around 1000 BC . Although these books do contain some very ancient fragments , they date , in the form in which they have been ...
... claim to describe the history of the Jewish people before the founding of the kingdom of Israel by Saul around 1000 BC . Although these books do contain some very ancient fragments , they date , in the form in which they have been ...
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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