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Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History

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Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis Military Technology and Strategies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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Part I. Who, Why, and How: 1. The Pliocene: something new is afoot Part II. The First Acceleration, The First Projectiles: 2. The Pliocene and Pleistocene: 'you are what you throw' 3. The Pleistocene and Holocene: 'cooking the Earth' 4. The Upper Paleolithic: 'humanity and other disasters' 5. From weapon craftsmanship to weapon technology Part III. The Second Acceleration: Gunpowder: 6. The Chinese elixir 7. Gunpowder as centripetal force 8. Brown Bess to Big Bertha Part IV. The Third Acceleration: Into Extraterrestrial and Subatomic Space: 9. The V-2 and the bomb 10. The longest throws Part V. The Fourth Acceleration.

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