McNamara Ken McNamara

Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones (eBook, ePUB)

The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789142891
• Artikelnr.: 63045613

Autorenporträt

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.