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 37
... actually to exploit and develop this potential . Fire , to repeat , is a physico - chemical reaction which , under varying circumstances , will have a number of consequences , both in the short and in the long run . Humans have learned ...
... actually to exploit and develop this potential . Fire , to repeat , is a physico - chemical reaction which , under varying circumstances , will have a number of consequences , both in the short and in the long run . Humans have learned ...
الصفحة 53
... actually produced on a particular plot of land by and for a particular human community . When they engage in agriculture , people concentrate the crops that they find useful in one area and fight off the growth of other plants . If ...
... actually produced on a particular plot of land by and for a particular human community . When they engage in agriculture , people concentrate the crops that they find useful in one area and fight off the growth of other plants . If ...
الصفحة 81
... actually happened ( for all we have to go by is what the text itself tells us ) but what the authors had in mind . They might have thought either of heavenly fire , sent directly by God , or of a fire that was kept burning in the holy ...
... actually happened ( for all we have to go by is what the text itself tells us ) but what the authors had in mind . They might have thought either of heavenly fire , sent directly by God , or of a fire that was kept burning in the holy ...
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