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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.
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
This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...
The hearth was found in a cave complex that had previously been shielded by sands for 40,000 years Archaeologists find 60,000-year-old hearth that Neanderthals may have used to make tar Skip to ...
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 ...
Coastal geography is the study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, geology, and oceanography) and the human geography of the coast.
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]
Flowering heath on Amrum, Germany. A heath (/ h iː θ /) is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.