TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Preface xi 



Predilection for heat 1 



Fireless peoples 2 



Fire preservation 2 



Ignition point 4 



Ignition in nature 5 



Transportation 7 



Biological factor 7 



Location of the fire 8 



Rudiments of invention in the fireplace 11 



Fire in architecture 13 



Heating appliances for special uses 14 



Laying the fire 18 



Development of fire tools and furnishings of the fireplace _- 19 



Development of draught 22 



BeUows 24 



Braziers 26 



Flue stoves 28 



Cooking 30 



Stone boiling 40 



Boiling 44 



Development of the cooking stove 46 



Fuel 53 



Fire in archeological research 58 



Smoke and fire signals 58 



Fire hunting 60 



Clearing and agriculture 65 



Technology 67 



Metallurgy 74 



Ceramics 75 



Baths- 76 



Sanitation 79 



War .__ 81 



Fire alarms and prevention 82 



Time by Ught and fire 83 



Fire making by artificial means 84 



Ethnography of the fire drill 85 



Ethnography of the fire saw 104 



Ethnography of the fire thong 106 



Ethnography of the fire plow 107 



Ethnography of the fire piston 109 



The strike-a-light 111 



Ethnography of flint and pyrites 111 



Ethnography of the flint and steel strike-a-light 114 



Ethnography of the bamboo strike-a-light 119 



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