Fire and CivilizationAllen Lane, 1992 - 247 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة 73
... Assyrians in 722 BC . In 586 BC the southern part , named Judah , with Jerusalem as its capital , suffered a similar fate under the successors to the Assyrians , the Neo - Babylonians . The books in the first part of what is now known ...
... Assyrians in 722 BC . In 586 BC the southern part , named Judah , with Jerusalem as its capital , suffered a similar fate under the successors to the Assyrians , the Neo - Babylonians . The books in the first part of what is now known ...
الصفحة 88
... Assyria and Egypt . The story of the original ' holy war ' would then be an invention by priestly scribes , eager to establish what , in the military - agrarian society of their time , seemed the most respectable legitimation for a ...
... Assyria and Egypt . The story of the original ' holy war ' would then be an invention by priestly scribes , eager to establish what , in the military - agrarian society of their time , seemed the most respectable legitimation for a ...
الصفحة 90
... Assyria . In 586 BC the Assyrians besieged Jerusalem and took it by force . A few days after the conquest , they burned down the temple , the palace and all the great houses , and broke down the city walls ( II Kings 25 : 9-10 ) . The ...
... Assyria . In 586 BC the Assyrians besieged Jerusalem and took it by force . A few days after the conquest , they burned down the temple , the palace and all the great houses , and broke down the city walls ( II Kings 25 : 9-10 ) . The ...
المحتوى
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