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Fire as an instrument : the archaeology of pyrotechnologies

Title
Fire as an instrument : the archaeology of pyrotechnologies / edited by Dragos Gheorghiu.
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Gheorghiu, Dragos.
Description
vii, 118 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 1619
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 1619.
Subjects
Note
  • "...some of the papers presented at the 9th EAA Meeting in St. Petersburg in 2003"--P. 1.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Dragos Gheorghiu -- Hearth, heat and meat / Ulla Odgaard -- A social instrument: examining the chaîne-opératoire of the hearth / Silje Evjenth Bentsen -- Etude du profil thermique d'une structure de combustion en meule (pit kiln): four ou foyer simple? / Claude Sestier -- Preserved in fire, Late Neolithic settlement structures in Western Hungary / Judit Regenye -- Chalcolithic pyroinstruments with air-draught: an outline / Dragos Gheorghiu -- A re-interpretation of a bronze age ceramic. Was it a cheese mould or a Bunsen burner? / Jacqui Wood -- Chalcolithic copper source-material and end-products: early trade between Israel and Jordan / Sariel Shalev -- Iron production in the Northern Eurasian Bronze Age / Stanislav A. Grigoriev -- Pyrotechnology of Titelberg Iron Age coin production / Ralph M. Rowlett and Dragana Mladenovic -- Fire cult? The spatial organization of a cooking pit site in Scania / Jes Martens -- Ashes to ashes: the Instrumental use of fire in west-central European early Iron Age mortuary ritual / Seth A. Schneider -- 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.] -- Pyrotechnology and local resources in Chianti shire: from clay, limestone and wood to bricks, lime and pottery making. Some preliminary notes / Marta Caroscio.
ISBN
  • 9781407300313
  • 1407300318
LCCN
2007386536
OCLC
  • ocn124509656
  • 124509656
  • SCSB-5390687
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries