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
... called Palestine . The accounts in Joshua , Judges , and I and II Samuel can be read as the history of a number of closely intertwined competing groups trying to gain control over a sizeable part of this territory Fire in Ancient Israel 73.
... called Palestine . The accounts in Joshua , Judges , and I and II Samuel can be read as the history of a number of closely intertwined competing groups trying to gain control over a sizeable part of this territory Fire in Ancient Israel 73.
الصفحة 74
Johan Goudsblom. to gain control over a sizeable part of this territory . After a brief period of military success , the political power of the Israelites waned ; even so , they maintained a cultural unity centred on a common religion ...
Johan Goudsblom. to gain control over a sizeable part of this territory . After a brief period of military success , the political power of the Israelites waned ; even so , they maintained a cultural unity centred on a common religion ...
الصفحة 130
... territory : the world of the Greek Orthodox Church , dominated by Byzantium ; the world of Western Christianity , com- mitted to the Roman Catholic Church ; and the Muslim world . It was a tripartition in which religion appeared to be ...
... territory : the world of the Greek Orthodox Church , dominated by Byzantium ; the world of Western Christianity , com- mitted to the Roman Catholic Church ; and the Muslim world . It was a tripartition in which religion appeared to be ...
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