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Fire as an Instrument: The Archaeology of Pyrotechnologies
Dragos Gheorghiu
This volumes presents 13 papers based on a session held at the EAA meeting in St Petersburg in 2003, and offers a ‘material’ perception of fire, which will be approached as an artefact, together with its material support.
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Cover Page
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Contributors
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Introduction
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Hearth, Heat and Meat
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A Social Instrument: Examining the Chaîne Opératoire of the Hearth
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Etude du profil thermique d’une structure de combustion en meule (pitkiln):four ou foyer simple?
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Preserved in FireLate Neolithic Settlement Structures in Western Hungary
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Chalcolithic Pyroinstruments with Air-Draught – An Outline
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A Re-Interpretation of a Bronze Age Ceramic. Was it a Cheese Mould or a Bunsen Burner?
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Chalcolithic Copper Source-material and End-products: Early Trade between Israel and Jordan
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Iron Production in the Northern Eurasian Bronze Age
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Pyrotechnology of Titelberg Iron Age Coin Production
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Fire Cult? - The Spatial Organization of a Cooking Pit Site in Scania
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Ashes to Ashes: The Instrumental Use of Fire in West-Central European Early Iron Age Mortuary Ritual
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Pyrotechnology and Local Resources in Chianti Shire: From Clay, Limestone and Wood to Bricks, Lime and Pottery Making. Sorne Preliminary Notes
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407330860 (ebook)
- 9781407300313 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1619
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Western Europe and Britain
- Levant / Near East
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Multiperiod
- Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Ritual / Religion / Temples
- Metal Objects
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic