Fossil Legends Of The First Americans
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
Author: Adrienne Mayor
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2023-04-11
This book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees.
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
Author: Adrienne Mayor
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2005
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive?
The First Fossil Hunters
Author: Adrienne Mayor
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2023-04-11
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than fictions? This is the arresting and original idea that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and documentation, she shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact - in ancient people's discoveries of the enormous bones of long-extinct dinosaurs, mastodons, and other animals that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.