Fire as an instrument
Subtitle: the archaeology of pyrotechnologies
By: edited by Dragos Gheorghiu.
Contributors: Gheorghiu, Dragos.
Series: BAR international series -- 1619
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781407300313
Subjects: Fire -- History -- Congresses.; Hearths, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Firemaking -- History -- Congresses.; Europe -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "...some of the papers presented at the 9th EAA Meeting in St. Petersburg in 2003"--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Dragos Gheorghiu; value: Hearth, heat and meat / Ulla Odgaard; value: A social instrument: examining the chaîne-opératoire of the hearth / Silje Evjenth Bentsen; value: Etude du profil thermique d'une structure de combustion en meule (pit kiln): four ou foyer simple? / Claude Sestier; value: Preserved in fire, Late Neolithic settlement structures in Western Hungary / Judit Regenye; value: Chalcolithic pyroinstruments with air-draught: an outline / Dragos Gheorghiu; value: A re-interpretation of a bronze age ceramic. Was it a cheese mould or a Bunsen burner? / Jacqui Wood; value: Chalcolithic copper source-material and end-products: early trade between Israel and Jordan / Sariel Shalev; value: Iron production in the Northern Eurasian Bronze Age / Stanislav A. Grigoriev; value: Pyrotechnology of Titelberg Iron Age coin production / Ralph M. Rowlett and Dragana Mladenovic; value: Fire cult? The spatial organization of a cooking pit site in Scania / Jes Martens; value: Ashes to ashes: the Instrumental use of fire in west-central European early Iron Age mortuary ritual / Seth A. Schneider; value: Roasters from the Early Medieval hillfort at Stradów, Czarnocin commune, South Poland, in the light of the results of specialist analyses / Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski ... [et al.]; value: Pyrotechnology and local resources in Chianti shire: from clay, limestone and wood to bricks, lime and pottery making. Some preliminary notes / Marta Caroscio.