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Catching fire : how cooking made us human
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ISBN: 9780465013623 0465013627 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Basic Books,

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In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor.


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Nature et fonction des foyers préhistoriques : actes du Colloque international de Nemours, 12-13-14 mai 1987
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ISBN: 2906160040 9782906160040 Year: 1989 Volume: 2 Publisher: Nemours : Association pour la promotion de la recherche archéologique en Ile-de-France (A.P.R.A.I.F.),


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Fire in archaeology : papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Sixth Annual Meeting in Lisbon 2000
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ISBN: 1841714674 Year: 2002 Volume: 1089 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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Le feu avant les allumettes : Expérimentation et mythes techniques
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ISBN: 2735107655 273511936X 9782735107650 Year: 2016 Volume: 3 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme,

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Ce livre est le résultat de nombreuses années d'expérimentations sur les méthodes préindustrielles de production du feu. Jacques Collina-Girard y énumère et décrit les techniques qu'il a testées, il en dégage les principes physiques et en expose les conditions pratiques de fonctionnement. L'expérimentation lui permet de faire le tri dans les nombreuses idées souvent préconçues véhiculées par la littérature archéologique et ethnographique depuis plus d'un siècle. C'est ainsi par exemple que le choc de deux silex ne donne jamais d'étincelle utilisable, il faut qu'une des deux pièces soit en acier, en marcassite ou en pyrite. De même, I'expérimentation systématique des briquets à friction montre que l'idée qu'il faut faire agir un bois dur sur un bois tendre est sans fondement. En fait, les meilleurs bois sont tendres et riches en fibres microscopiques longues. Les données nouvelles aboutissent à une révision fondamentale des interprétations courantes dans plusieurs domaines importants de la préhistoire du feu.

Fire as an instrument : the archaeology of pyrotechnologies
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ISBN: 9781407300313 1407300318 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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Campfires in context : hunter-gatherer fire technology and the archeological record of the Southern High Plains, USA
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ISBN: 9781407306551 1407306553 Year: 2010 Volume: 2114 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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Aurignacian clay hearths from Klissoura Cave 1 : an experimental approach
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ISBN: 9781407309149 1407309145 Year: 2012 Volume: 2331 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,


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Le feu domestique et ses structures au néolithique aux âges des métaux : actes du colloque de Bourg-en-Bresse et Beaune, 7-8 octobre 2000
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ISBN: 9782907303743 2907303740 Year: 2003 Volume: 9 Publisher: Montagnac : M. Mergoil,

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The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov.
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ISBN: 9789048137657 9789048137640 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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The manipulation of fire by early hominins was a turning point in our evolutionary history. Once "domesticated", fire provided warmth, light and protection from predators, as well as enabling the exploitation of a new range of foods. This book presents the spatial analyses of burned and unburned flint items which provide evidence for the controlled use of fire at the 790,000-year-old Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya ˜aqov (GBY). Clusters of burned flint, interpreted as the remnants of hearths, occur throughout the entire occupational sequence of the site. The fact that fire is repetitively used suggests that the knowledge of fire-making and the technological skills of the Acheulian hominins of Gesher Benot Ya ˜aqov enabled them to set fire at will in diverse environmental settings. "Control of fire marks a significant landmark in human evolution, providing warmth, protection, and many new foods. This important volume compellingly shows that fire was already in regular use some 800,000 years ago." John D. Speth, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA "A major contribution to knowledge of early human fire history, the finds at Gesher Benot Ya ˜aqov add immensely to the picture of our early ancestors by the fireside. The authors present a painstaking and multidimensional scientific investigation which should convince even sceptics of the importance of fire use in prehistory" John A.J. Gowlett, British Academy Centenary Research Project, The Archaeology of the Social Brain, UK

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