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Hearth with cooking utensils. A hearth (/ h ɑːr θ /) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Vietnam accepted the convention on 19 October 1987, making its natural and cultural sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [2] As of 2023, there are eight World Heritage Sites in Vietnam, including five cultural sites, two natural sites, and one mixed. [2]
At Saint-Estève-Janson in France, there is evidence of five hearths and reddened earth in the Escale Cave; these hearths have been dated to 200,000 BP. [1] Evidence for fire making dates to at least the Middle Paleolithic , with dozens of Neanderthal hand axes from France exhibiting use-wear traces suggesting these tools were struck with the ...
A photographer taking a record shot of a horse burial in a Roman ditch re-cut. A re-cut is a type of feature. In archaeological excavation, a feature is a collection of one or more contexts representing some human non-portable activity, such as a hearth or wall. [1]
A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature at which it becomes easier to shape by forging , or to the point at which work hardening no longer occurs.
Throughout all phases of society the hearth formed that sacred focus around which took order and shape. It is the first and most important element of architecture. Around it were grouped the other three elements: the roof, the enclosure, and the mound. The protecting negations or defenders of the hearths flame against three hostile elements of ...
[2] culture hearth The area from which the culture of a group diffused. See also hearth. [2] culvert A tunnel or conduit that channels water through or beneath an obstacle (e.g. through a man-made crossing of a ravine that would otherwise block the natural flow of water), or any artificially buried watercourse. curvimeter See opisometer. cusp
Hearth—The floor of a fireplace. The part of a hearth which projects into a room may be called the front or outer hearth. [21] Hearthstone—A large stone or other materials used as the hearth material. Insert—The fireplace insert is a device inserted into an existing masonry or prefabricated wood fireplace. [22]