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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16. oldal
... hominids began actively to collect and preserve , and later even to make , fire . THE TRANSITION TO ACTIVE USE OF FIRE At present any reconstruction of the earliest stages in hominid relations with fire has to be somewhat speculative ...
... hominids began actively to collect and preserve , and later even to make , fire . THE TRANSITION TO ACTIVE USE OF FIRE At present any reconstruction of the earliest stages in hominid relations with fire has to be somewhat speculative ...
25. oldal
... hominids in their ascent to eco- logical dominance . Again in South Africa , the archaeologist C. K. Brain found dramatic evidence for the shift in the balance of power between hominids and large predators . A cave at Sterkfontein was ...
... hominids in their ascent to eco- logical dominance . Again in South Africa , the archaeologist C. K. Brain found dramatic evidence for the shift in the balance of power between hominids and large predators . A cave at Sterkfontein was ...
40. oldal
... hominids , left little leeway for variations , and led to more or less the same adaptations all over the world , regardless of climate and geography . " It was simply impossible to keep a fire burning for long without at least some ...
... hominids , left little leeway for variations , and led to more or less the same adaptations all over the world , regardless of climate and geography . " It was simply impossible to keep a fire burning for long without at least some ...
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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