Book Review: Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies edited by Dragos Gheoghiu

Abstract

This book is a collection of six papers from the 2015 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists session with the same title, co-organised by Dragoş Gheoghiu and Derek Pitman. The contributors to this work are a global team of thirteen archaeology researchers and experimental archaeologists who have studied different aspects of the use of fire and its influence on human architecture, technology, and functionality. This book comprehensively presents the intrinsic link between fire, pyrotechnology, fuels, material culture and Man using a diverse methodological approach.

Keywords

• review
• fire
• newest era
• book