Architectures of Fire : Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Dragoş Gheorghiu -- A Song of Space and Fire: Is There a Pyrotechnical Architecture of the African Middle Stone Age? -- Silje Evjenth Bentsen and Sarah Wurz -- Firing the Earth. The Early Neolithic Ovens of Portonovo (Marche, Italy) -- Cecilia Conati Barbaro, Chiara La Marca, Vanessa Forte, Giacomo Eramo, Italo M. Muntoni and Alberto Rossi -- Architectures of Fire: The Pyro-proximities of the Chalcolithic Dwelling -- Dragoş Gheorghiu -- Italian Pottery Kilns and Production Areas from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Period (2200-500 BC). A Typological Approach -- Agostino Sotgia -- Shifting Focus: Expanding the Potential of Experimental Metallurgical Reconstructions -- Jessica L. Slater -- Ergonomics as a Tool for Fire Structures Reconstruction. Case Study of a Kiln Located in the Garncarskie Rock Shelter in Polish Jura Chain -- Michał Wojenka and Małgorzata Kot.

Papers presented here originate from a session held during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Glasgow). The contributors attempt to present the entanglement between the physical phenomenon of fire, the pyro-technological instrument that it is, its material supports, and the human being.

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