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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93. oldal
... Later , the same function was also given to the Gehenna valley , where , in earlier days , parents had burned their children for Molech . Later still , the name Gehenna became associated with the notion of a site of ever- burning fire ...
... Later , the same function was also given to the Gehenna valley , where , in earlier days , parents had burned their children for Molech . Later still , the name Gehenna became associated with the notion of a site of ever- burning fire ...
97. oldal
... later period , information about such elementary matters as the size of the popu- lation of cities and provinces is still vague , and it is particularly difficult to find comprehensive data concerning the use of fire . Whereas a good ...
... later period , information about such elementary matters as the size of the popu- lation of cities and provinces is still vague , and it is particularly difficult to find comprehensive data concerning the use of fire . Whereas a good ...
104. oldal
... later to label ' the Protestant ethic ' was already formulated by Hesiod.1 We may regard him as the oldest - known ideologue of a free peasantry . In that sense , he advocated a specific set of civilizing constraints that might help ...
... later to label ' the Protestant ethic ' was already formulated by Hesiod.1 We may regard him as the oldest - known ideologue of a free peasantry . In that sense , he advocated a specific set of civilizing constraints that might help ...
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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