Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones – The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils : The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils
by
Ken McNamara
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1789142903
ISBN-13
9781789142907
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 12th, 2020
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
500 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 22.40 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Popular science
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Explores humankind’s age-old 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 behaviour 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 you on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and explores humankind’s unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
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