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Cover: 9781789142907 | Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones | Kenneth J. McNamara | Buch | 2020
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Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones
The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils
Buch von Kenneth J. McNamara
Sprache: Englisch

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For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were just plain annoying. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, and folklore, Ken McNamara takes us on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and he explores humankind's unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were just plain annoying. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, and folklore, Ken McNamara takes us on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and he explores humankind's unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
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Ken McNamara is a paleontologist, former director of the Sedgwick Museum, and emeritus fellow of Downing College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Shapes of Time.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789142907
ISBN-10: 1789142903
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: McNamara, Kenneth J.
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 222 x 148 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Kenneth J. McNamara
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 118304952
Über den Autor
Ken McNamara is a paleontologist, former director of the Sedgwick Museum, and emeritus fellow of Downing College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Shapes of Time.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789142907
ISBN-10: 1789142903
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: McNamara, Kenneth J.
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 222 x 148 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Kenneth J. McNamara
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 118304952
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