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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23. oldal
... human monopoly of the active use of fire was established a very long time ago . All other animals are defenceless ... groups were gaining a decisive advantage , neighbouring groups could not afford to lag behind . They would either have ...
... human monopoly of the active use of fire was established a very long time ago . All other animals are defenceless ... groups were gaining a decisive advantage , neighbouring groups could not afford to lag behind . They would either have ...
28. oldal
... human hunters and reduced their need to rely on fire ' - fire continued to be used by individual hunters to smoke a single small mammal out of its shelter , or by well - organized groups to drive a whole herd of elephants into an ambush ...
... human hunters and reduced their need to rely on fire ' - fire continued to be used by individual hunters to smoke a single small mammal out of its shelter , or by well - organized groups to drive a whole herd of elephants into an ambush ...
39. oldal
... groups with fire . 31 Just as the warmth radiated by fire furthered the expansion of the human dominion territorially , the light it spread offered temporal expansion , making it possible to fill dark evenings with work , play and ...
... groups with fire . 31 Just as the warmth radiated by fire furthered the expansion of the human dominion territorially , the light it spread offered temporal expansion , making it possible to fill dark evenings with work , play and ...
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