The Archaeology of fire
Subtitle: Understanding fire as matrial culture
Publisher: Archaeolingua; Archaeolingua Alapítvány
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Budapest, Hungary
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
Table of contents: title: Dragos Gheorghiu & George Nash: Firemaker!; title: Chapter 1  Dragos Gheorghiu: Between material culture and phenomenology - The Archaeology of a Chalcolithic fire-powered machine; title: Chapter 2 Anthony Harding: Hearth and owen in Early Iron Age Sobiejuchy, Central Poland; title: Chapter 3 Ulla Odgaard: The Fireplace as centre of life; title: Chapter 4 Paula Purhonen: The symbolic meaning of cremation burial; title: Chapter 5 Raimond Thorn: Great rows of fire - The Linearity of hearths and cooking pits in Southern Scandinavia; title: Chapter 6 George Nash: Lighting-up the end of the passage -The way Megalithic art was viewed and experienced; title: Chapter 7 Marie-Chantal Frere-Sautot: Semiological discourse on the process of reduction of copper ore in the Copper and Bronze Ages; title: Chapter 8 Francoise Audouze: Uses of fire at the Magdalenian site of Verberie, France; title: Chapter 9 Ann-Marie Kroll-Lerner: Keep the yurt fires burning - Ethnographic accounts and religious myths surrounding indigenous fire use in Western Siberia; title: Chapter 10 Kevin Andrews: Sophisticated fire - Understanding bonfire pyrotechnologies in Iron Age France; title: Chapter 11 Ralph Rowlett: Detecting ancient fires and simple firplaces in the Old World; title: Chapter 12 Roberta Robin Dods: Pyrotechnology and landscapes of plenty in the Northern Boreal