Fire as an Instrument: The Archaeology of Pyrotechnologies

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This volumes presents 13 papers based on a session held at the EAA meeting in St Petersburg in 2003, and offers a ‘material’ perception of fire, which will be approached as an artefact, together with its material support. Cover Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Hearth, Heat and Meat A Social Instrument: Examining the Chaîne Opératoire of the Hearth Etude du profil thermique d’une structure de combustion en meule (pitkiln):four ou foyer simple? Preserved in FireLate Neolithic Settlement Structures in Western Hungary Chalcolithic Pyroinstruments with Air-Draught – An Outline A Re-Interpretation of a Bronze Age Ceramic. Was it a Cheese Mould or a Bunsen Burner? Chalcolithic Copper Source-material and End-products: Early Trade between Israel and Jordan Iron Production in the Northern Eurasian Bronze Age Pyrotechnology of Titelberg Iron Age Coin Production Fire Cult? - The Spatial Organization of a Cooking Pit Site in Scania Ashes to Ashes: The Instrumental Use of Fire in West-Central European Early Iron Age Mortuary Ritual Pyrotechnology and Local Resources in Chianti Shire: From Clay, Limestone and Wood to Bricks, Lime and Pottery Making. Sorne Preliminary Notes