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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86. oldal
... flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day ' ( 10 : 17 ) . A military image is clearly ... flames of fire . For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall ...
... flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day ' ( 10 : 17 ) . A military image is clearly ... flames of fire . For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall ...
108. oldal
... flame - thrower and thus to set fire to the fortifications , forcing the defenders to abandon their positions and ... flames towards one's own lines . The operations of invading armies used to include what the ancient historian Victor ...
... flame - thrower and thus to set fire to the fortifications , forcing the defenders to abandon their positions and ... flames towards one's own lines . The operations of invading armies used to include what the ancient historian Victor ...
186. oldal
... flames crawled up the hillside in narrow ribbons ; through the dark blue or sapphire smoke the hillside changes colour like a black opal under the glint of its polished surface . From the hillside in front of us the fire went on down ...
... flames crawled up the hillside in narrow ribbons ; through the dark blue or sapphire smoke the hillside changes colour like a black opal under the glint of its polished surface . From the hillside in front of us the fire went on down ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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