Pyrotechnolgist and anthropologist Dr. Ellery Frahm stands on a mountain top above a small city and smalls at the camera. — Pyrotechnolgist and anthropologist Dr. Ellery Frahm stands on a mountain top above a small city and smiles at the camera.

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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