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 74
... exile in Babylon , the days when these tribes could celebrate triumphs on the battlefield were over . The feats of bygone days were now recorded with all the more devotion by a literate élite of priests who , though themselves no longer ...
... exile in Babylon , the days when these tribes could celebrate triumphs on the battlefield were over . The feats of bygone days were now recorded with all the more devotion by a literate élite of priests who , though themselves no longer ...
الصفحة 88
... exile , many centuries after the events which it purports to record . Today it is a matter for debate among archaeologists , historians and theologians whether these events ever took place at all , and whether there is any empirical ...
... exile , many centuries after the events which it purports to record . Today it is a matter for debate among archaeologists , historians and theologians whether these events ever took place at all , and whether there is any empirical ...
الصفحة 90
... exile in Babylon as a high palace dignitary , received word that the city of Jerusalem was still dismantled , its gates ' consumed with fire ' ( Nehemiah 2 : 3 ) . The Persian king , who now ruled over Babylon , gave him permission to ...
... exile in Babylon as a high palace dignitary , received word that the city of Jerusalem was still dismantled , its gates ' consumed with fire ' ( Nehemiah 2 : 3 ) . The Persian king , who now ruled over Babylon , gave him permission to ...
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