2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, 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.
Adjective: "of or relating to the role of fire in shaping human cultural and technological development"
2005, Frank Niele, Energy: Engine of Evolution, page 118:
It is this very notion that makes the current carbocultural overshoot essentially different from the earlier pyrocultural and agrocultural overshoots.
2016, Mike Leeder & Joy Lawlor, GeoBritannica: Geological Landscapes and the British Peoples, page:
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 Research in Technology Education: International Approaches (eds. Marc J. de Vries et al.), page 45:
Due to his ingenuity Homo learned to unleash the energy of wood by taming wild fire and stepped into the pyrocultural age.
2020, David J. LePoire & Andrey V. Korotayev, "Conclusion", in The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures: A Big History Perspective (Andrey V. Korotayev & David J. LePoire), page 607:
The remaining three dealt with human and societal evolution with the pyrocultural regime (use of fire starting in about 500,000 years ago), […]
2022, Fred Spier, How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers, unnumbered page:
The domestication of fire made humans more powerful. This may have had considerable effects on their mental state, including their ways of perceiving the world and their position within it. But for our account, its most important aspect was that the domestication of fire heralded the beginning of a novel survival strategy within the biosphere's history. Dutch scientist Frank Niele called it the 'pyrocultural energy regime.'
