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But I start with the assumption that pyrotechnology is not an exact science.
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The plastered pillars made of mud and sherds are fascinating additions to our understanding of Predynastic pyrotechnology as similar features have been unearthed in the pottery kilns at HK11C (back in the wadi) during excavations currently being undertaken by Masahiro Baba of Waseda University.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 3 2002
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Neanderthal knowledge of pyrotechnology is fully compatible with the hypothesis of their use of fire for ecosystem management.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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Neanderthal knowledge of pyrotechnology is fully compatible with the hypothesis of their use of fire for ecosystem management.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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Neanderthal knowledge of pyrotechnology is fully compatible with the hypothesis of their use of fire for ecosystem management.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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Neanderthal knowledge of pyrotechnology is fully compatible with the hypothesis of their use of fire for ecosystem management.
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Today's news of evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process tells us a lot more about our species.
LeverWealth 2009
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"Here are the beginnings of fire and engineering, the origins of pyrotechnology, and the bridge to more recent ceramic and metal technology," Brown says.
innovations-report 2009
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Most archaeologists have thought that humans developed pyrotechnology-the controlled use of fire-in Europe about 25,000 years ago.
Scientific American 2009
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Instead of ice sheets, glaciers and periglacial environments adjacent to the ice, a Pyrocene manifests itself with fire-informed biotas, fire-starved biotas, hot spots where fire is the dominant energy source, peripyric landscapes where humans equipped with pyrotechnologies have reshaped the scene, and of course a warming atmosphere and unhinged climate that passes over the planet.
The planet is burning around us: is it time to declare the Pyrocene? – Stephen J Pyne | Aeon Essays Stephen J Pyne 2023
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