Fire pot

Archaeologists found that fire pots were being used 10,000, or more, years ago, according to finds during the 1936-37 dig in Fells Cave ,[1] of which is located in the valley of the Rio Chico, not far from the Strait of Magellan.

An earthenware fire-pot or indigenous stove found in West Africa ,[3] notably in Ilora and Oyo, an Adogan has a flat bottom with a carinated wall and an out-turned rim with three decorated lugs to support the cooking pot.

Containers made at first from clay, later from cast iron, known as 'carcasses', were launched by a siege engine, filled with pitch, Greek fire or other incendiary mixtures.

In the Siege of Petra (550–551), the Sasanians used fire pots containing sulfur, bitumen and naphtha, a composition called the "oil of Medea"—an early form of chemical weapon.

They range from simple earthenware bowls to intricately carved silver or gold vessels, small table top objects a few centimetres tall to as many as several metres high.

[citation needed] Before a Buddhist tantric ritual, an assisting monk may swing a censer or thurible as he passes to 'purify' the room.

Inside it, powdered incense that has been put on a smoldering bit of charcoal burns slowly, and the smoke escapes through pierced openings in the closed lid.

[citation needed] In Genesis 15, a chapter of the Bible ,[7] God instructs Abraham to cut a heifer, a she goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon into halves.

When it got dark, "a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between the pieces", and later God made a covenant with Abraham granting him and his heirs extensive lands between the River of Egypt (either the Nile or the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai) and the Euphrates.

Texts from Mari in northern Mesopotamia from about the same period say that parties entering into a covenant would seal the agreement by cutting a donkey in half and then walking between the severed pieces.

Sakthi Karagam is a dance performed in Tamil Nadu with a fire pot on the head in the Mariamman or Durga temple rituals.

In earlier times, the clay pot, or Karagam, was considered the residence of the local deity during the festival ,[9] which played a crucial role in community bonding.

Some have been driven by the need to adapt to new fuels, such as charcoal, oil, coal, coke, kerosene, propane, electricity and microwaves.

Always the motive would have been to improve the design, to make a device for managing fire that was cheaper, more robust, more convenient, more capable of meeting new demands.