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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... forces such as rain or wind . But , then , fire has the rare quality of being self - generating . Fire causes heat ... force of nature and to make it a part of their own societies ? What enabled them to do so ? And why did they find it ...
... forces such as rain or wind . But , then , fire has the rare quality of being self - generating . Fire causes heat ... force of nature and to make it a part of their own societies ? What enabled them to do so ? And why did they find it ...
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... force of cannon , combined with harsh military discipline . Fire was poured down on the Turkish troops who stormed the walls of the city , and we are given a nightmare picture of the soldiers falling into the moat screaming with pain ...
... force of cannon , combined with harsh military discipline . Fire was poured down on the Turkish troops who stormed the walls of the city , and we are given a nightmare picture of the soldiers falling into the moat screaming with pain ...
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Johan Goudsblom. ening of the forces of the police and the law , in combination with a general rise in the level of ... force . This development as a whole , although punctuated by some major discoveries and inventions , was gradual ...
Johan Goudsblom. ening of the forces of the police and the law , in combination with a general rise in the level of ... force . This development as a whole , although punctuated by some major discoveries and inventions , was gradual ...
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