Fire as an instrument : the archaeology of pyrotechnologies / edited by Dragos Gheorghiu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gheorghiu, Dragos.

European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting 2003 : St. Petersburg)

Series:

BAR international series ; 1619.

BAR international series ; 1619

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire--History--Congresses.

Fire.

Firemaking--History--Congresses.

Firemaking.

Hearths, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Hearths, Prehistoric.

History.

Europe--Antiquities--Congresses.

Europe.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 118 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

Language Note:

One text in French.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"...some of the papers presented at the 9th EAA Meeting in St. Petersburg in 2003"--P. 1.

ISBN:

1407300318

9781407300313

OCLC:

124509656