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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42. oldal
... intensive growth ' ) and increases in human numbers ( or ' extensive growth ' ) were almost imperceptibly slow . We can now see that both began to ... intensive and extensive growth were speeded up even more FIRE AND AGRARIANIZATION.
... intensive growth ' ) and increases in human numbers ( or ' extensive growth ' ) were almost imperceptibly slow . We can now see that both began to ... intensive and extensive growth were speeded up even more FIRE AND AGRARIANIZATION.
161. oldal
... intensive growth created the conditions under which , at least for the time being , a chronic threat to intensive growth itself came to an end . FIRE IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE Every section of society was affected sooner or later by a ...
... intensive growth created the conditions under which , at least for the time being , a chronic threat to intensive growth itself came to an end . FIRE IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE Every section of society was affected sooner or later by a ...
165. oldal
... extensive and intensive growth , and a continuation , at a faster pace than ever before , of such related trends as the increasing concentration , specialization and organization of the human population . - Extensive growth has been ...
... extensive and intensive growth , and a continuation , at a faster pace than ever before , of such related trends as the increasing concentration , specialization and organization of the human population . - Extensive growth has been ...
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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