pyrocultural

English

Etymology

From pyro- +‎ cultural or pyroculture +‎ -al.

Adjective

pyrocultural (comparative more pyrocultural, superlative most pyrocultural)

1. 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.