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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33. oldal
... organized matter to a lower state of organization or integration , and it does so in a manner that is irreversible . Sometimes , however , the primarily destructive effects of a fire are conducive to processes of reorganization and ...
... organized matter to a lower state of organization or integration , and it does so in a manner that is irreversible . Sometimes , however , the primarily destructive effects of a fire are conducive to processes of reorganization and ...
58. oldal
... organization of people in larger economic , religious and political units , and by increasing social stratification , or a division of people into upper and lower tiers with greater or lesser access to power , property and prestige ...
... organization of people in larger economic , religious and political units , and by increasing social stratification , or a division of people into upper and lower tiers with greater or lesser access to power , property and prestige ...
149. oldal
... organization and the power relations it implied . In Rome , and in Roman provincial towns such as Nicomedia , fire - fighting was left to a semi - military force that stood directly under Imperial command . The citizens themselves were ...
... organization and the power relations it implied . In Rome , and in Roman provincial towns such as Nicomedia , fire - fighting was left to a semi - military force that stood directly under Imperial command . The citizens themselves were ...
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