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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29. oldal
... gatherers and hunters also lit fires intentionally . A primary reason for doing this was to drive game animals out of their lairs in the bush . The fire might also chase away predators and snakes , while the combination of smoke and ...
... gatherers and hunters also lit fires intentionally . A primary reason for doing this was to drive game animals out of their lairs in the bush . The fire might also chase away predators and snakes , while the combination of smoke and ...
46. oldal
... people were well adapted were overgrown by forests offering far less favourable conditions to gatherers and hunters . It seems very probable that the advance of the forests stimulated people to intensify their firing practices . As the ...
... people were well adapted were overgrown by forests offering far less favourable conditions to gatherers and hunters . It seems very probable that the advance of the forests stimulated people to intensify their firing practices . As the ...
197. oldal
... gathering and hunting or a slash and burn economy is considered pathological and criminal . Until recently , as soon ... gatherers and hunters this would be an open campfire . Thus the anthropologist Jane Goodale described how among the ...
... gathering and hunting or a slash and burn economy is considered pathological and criminal . Until recently , as soon ... gatherers and hunters this would be an open campfire . Thus the anthropologist Jane Goodale described how among the ...
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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