The association between our ancestors and fire, somewhere around
six to four million years ago, had a tremendous impact on human
evolution, transforming our earliest human ancestor, a being
communicating without speech but with insight, reason, manual
dexterity, highly developed social organization, and the capability
of experimenting with this new technology. As it first associated
with and then began to tame fire, this extraordinary being began to
distance itself from its primate relatives, taking a path that
would alter its environment, physiology, and self-image.
Based on her extensive research with nonhuman primates,
anthropologist Frances Burton details the stages of the conquest of
fire and the systems it affected. Her study examines the natural
occurrence of fire and describes the effects light has on human
physiology. She constructs possible variations of our earliest
human ancestor and its way of life, utilizing archaeological and
anthropological evidence of the earliest human-controlled fires to
explore the profound physical and biological impacts fire had on
human evolution.
General
Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2009 |
First published: |
April 2009 |
Authors: |
Frances D. Burton
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8263-4646-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8263-4646-4 |
Barcode: |
9780826346469 |
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