The Archaeology of Fire

Series Minor No. 23

Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2007
Puhakötés | Paper book, 23.5 × 16.5 cm
264 oldal, színes és fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal | 264 pages with colored and grayscale images

ISBN 978 963 8046 79 6

Table of contents // Tartalomjegyzék

Description

This volume offers a range of papers that deliberately question some of the traditional views associated with the role of fire. In the past, fire and the hearth usually represented a means of cooking, heat and illumination. Moreover, the evidence of fire and its functionality was relegated to the miscellaneous sections of the archaeological literature. However, it is clear form this volume that the role of fire extends beyond a mere functional one. Fire is meaningful, powerful and supernatural and was integral to the successful development of past societies.