Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: Energy Special, Part 2: Palaeolithic Fire

merc

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:30:42 +1200

Might I also suggest reading this fellow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Neumann_(psychologist).

Graeme Edgeler

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:10 +1200

Thanks for doing this, I finally caught up with the first two, and it got me so interested in the area I started watching The Ascent of Man again...

REPLY: Very glad you're enjoying it, Graeme — thanks for letting me know. Cheers, DH

Neil Morrison

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:29:38 +1200

I guess my concern is that it’s really hard to figure out what those hominids were thinking....I suspect that any attempt by us to put ourselves in their heads is doomed to failure, our cultural perspective makes it impossible.

It's very difficult to figure out what they were thinking but…

Bart Janssen

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:08:33 +1200

Regarding Cassava
Some quick reading makes me an expert in its origins (not) but as far as I can tell from my reading Cassava (Manihot esculenta) as we know it now is very much domesticated and probably the result of some hybridisation (crosses between different wild species) and introgression (fancy…

Neil Morrison

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:20:47 +1200

I'm curious about what that long delay between the use of fire and the knowledge of how to make fire possibly says about our early ancestors' view of the world around them.

We clever Homo sapiens now know all about fire – how it's a product of chemical reactions. But…

David Haywood

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:19:21 +1200

Bart Janssen wrote:

You are of course getting into chicken and egg discussions about which came first... I think you are probably right but possibly skipping over the issue that several factors have to combine before significant changes occur... I think one factor in development that you're skipping is the…

Bart Janssen

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:12:22 +1200

Hi David

ooo now this is fun stuff. You are of course getting into chicken and egg discussions about which came first. I think you are probably right but possibly skipping over the issue that several factors have to combine before significant changes occur. Fire was definately critical but other…

Charles Mabbett

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:24:06 +1200

Hi David,
I've come to this series a little late but I want to say it's been brilliant so far. I won't even begin to guess the energy expended in putting the series together. The thesis that human civilisational development takes a leap forward when a new energy source is…

Public Address

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:24:06 +1200

Discussion from blog post.