Fire in Archaeology: Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Sixth Annual Meeting in Lisbon 2000

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This volume publishes a collection of papers inspired by the sessions on "The Archaeology of Fire" held at the 6th and 7th European Association of Archaeologists Conferences in Lisbon and Esslington in 2000 and 2001. In archaeological literature the number of studies on fire is minimal. In archaeological research fire seems to have been the forgotten phenomenon, all attention being focussed on material culture. The 15 papers here (covering the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age and regions from Scandinavia to Italy, Spain to the Black Sea) reflect on the approaches to the study of fire, as an essential phenomenon in human evolution. Included are studies of anthracology, ethnoarchaeology, field archaeology, symbolism, technology and experimental archaeology, whose ideas converge to some universals, such as the relationship of fire with environment, materials, human body, its quality of transformability, and its anthropological centrality. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Towards Pyroarchaeology FIRE AS AN EVOLUTIONARY FACTOR CHARCOAL AS A REMAIN OF NATURAL AND HUMAN-SET FIRES OF PALAEOLITHIC TIMES – CASE STUDY FROM HUNGARY UN HABITAT DU GRAVETTIEN MOYEN A BURINS DE NOAILLES DE L’ABRI PATAUD (DORDOGNE, FRANCE) CREMATION FIRES IN LATE NEOLITHIC FRANCE FIRE AS A MEANS OF RITUAL TRANSFORMATION DURING THE PREHISTORY OF SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIA ASPECTS OF THE USE AND FIRE MANAGEMENT OF BRACKEN FERN(Pteridium esculentum) BURNED HOUSES IN THE NEOLITHIC OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE SOME COMMENTS ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF PREHISTORIC POTTERY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS IN THE LIGHT OF ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FIRE AND AIR DRAUGHT: EXPERIMENTING THE CHALCOLITHIC PYROINSTRUMENTS LES NÉCROPOLES À INCINÉRATION DE L'ÂGE DU BRONZE RÉCENT (XIV-XIII s. av. J.-C.) EN ITALIE NORD-OCCIDENTALE HOLY FIRES AND PROFANE FIRES IN PROTOHISTORIC ETRURIA. NEW DATA FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF SORGENTI DELLA NOVA (VITERBO - ITALY) MAN - FIRE - STONE – FIRE-CRACKED STONES AS A CULTURAL EXPRESSION TOMBS, TEXTS AND IMAGES: FIRE IN GREEK FUNERAL RITUALS CREMATION OUTSIDE THE GRAVE: SEARCHING FOR THE TRACES OF A FUNERAL PILE THE FIRE OF TJELVAR: GUTNIC SYMBOLS ON PICTURE-STONES