pyrocultural
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English pyrocultural
From pyro- + cultural or pyroculture + -al.
Adjective
pyrocultural (comparative more pyrocultural, superlative most pyrocultural)
- Of or relating to pyroculture.
- 2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics[1], page 61:
- Reinterpreting early eyewitness accounts and visual records, Gammage enables the reader to ‘see’ what was once invisible: a land intentionally shaped by skilful pyrocultural interventions.
- 2016, Mike Leeder, Joy Lawlor, GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples[2]:
- This first pyrocultural activity entailed the chemical reduction of ore minerals in charcoal-burning furnaces.
- 2018, Johannes Deutsch, “Exploring energy related knowledge in technology and natural science education: Uncovering energy related understanding of students in the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of lower secondary education”, in Marc J. de Vries et al., editors, Research in Technology Education: International Approaches, page 45:
- Due to his ingenuity Homo learned to unleash the energy of wood by taming wild fire and stepped into the pyrocultural age.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pyrocultural.