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 10
... present , with nuclear physicists able to heat plasma of deuteron and tritium to 150 million degrees . Reading the professional literature the tops of gigantic icebergs of learning – I have become painfully aware of my own limitations ...
... present , with nuclear physicists able to heat plasma of deuteron and tritium to 150 million degrees . Reading the professional literature the tops of gigantic icebergs of learning – I have become painfully aware of my own limitations ...
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... present knowledge what the hominid diet must have been like before the domestication of fire . Some highly plausible conjectures can be made , however . By letting the fire do some ' pre - digestive ' work , cooking opened up new food ...
... present knowledge what the hominid diet must have been like before the domestication of fire . Some highly plausible conjectures can be made , however . By letting the fire do some ' pre - digestive ' work , cooking opened up new food ...
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... present , according to Kirby , the state auth- orities in Ghana tend to underestimate the severity of the problem of virtually uncontrolled burning , seeing the shortage of water as their country's greatest ecological problem . However ...
... present , according to Kirby , the state auth- orities in Ghana tend to underestimate the severity of the problem of virtually uncontrolled burning , seeing the shortage of water as their country's greatest ecological problem . However ...
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