Dragoş Gheorghiu is an historical anthropologist/archaeologist and experimentalist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, material culture and ancient technologies. He has edited books on fire in archaeology, fire as material culture, fire as an instrument, also on ceramics, figurines and stamps. During the last two decades he has carried out experiments with the building and burning of wattle and daub houses, with kilns and with other structures involved with combustion.

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• 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

Dragoş Gheorghiu is an historical anthropologist/archaeologist and experimentalist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, material culture and ancient technologies. He has edited books on fire in archaeology, fire as material culture, fire as an instrument, also on ceramics, figurines and stamps. During the last two decades he has carried out experiments with the building and burning of wattle and daub houses, with kilns and with other structures involved with combustion.

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• 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

Dragoş Gheorghiu is an historical anthropologist/archaeologist and experimentalist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, material culture and ancient technologies. He has edited books on fire in archaeology, fire as material culture, fire as an instrument, also on ceramics, figurines and stamps. During the last two decades he has carried out experiments with the building and burning of wattle and daub houses, with kilns and with other structures involved with combustion.

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• 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