What Do You Love Most About Being a Pyro Technologist?

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I have great students. They keep me on my toes. And no, i never quite know what aspect of of ancient technology some student is going to latch on to and want help with. You really are like e everything's a mystery. I mean, sherlock holmes, you know, he had the luxury of things happening days or weeks in advance. We've got to put a layer of hundreds of thousands of years on top of ot and deal withit. Might be this or that, but byow, i mean every little bit of of evidence. Were like ancient c s.

Grab your fire extinguisher and hang on to your eyebrows, we’re building FIRES today. Now, this is pyrotechnology in the anthropological sense; the kind covered in hair metal concert venue liability insurance will have to wait for another day, no no, these are the kind your ancestors made. Get ready for sharp rocks, hairy jello, sooty caves, glowing coals, iron sparks, burnt feet, wolf skulls, fluffy fungus, molten metal, ember tending and more with Yale anthropologist and pyrotechnologist, Dr. Ellery Frahm.

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