Dragons' teeth and thunderstones : the 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 17th-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, adorned on bodies and even used to try and c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McNamara, Ken (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020.
Temas:
Fossils > Popular works.
Fossils > History.
Fossils > Mythology.
Fossils > Collectors and collecting.
Animals, Fossil.
Plants, Fossil.
Fossiles > Histoire.
Fossiles > Mythologie.
Fossiles > Collectionneurs et collections.
Plantes fossiles.
Fossiles > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Nature > General.
Nature > Fossils.
Animals, Fossil
Fossils
Plants, Fossil
Popular works
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A timeless obsession
  • In the myths of time
  • The stuff of legends
  • Fashioning the stone
  • Delighting the mind
  • Saving the soul
  • Protecting the body
  • Curing the body
  • The dark side
  • A joke of time.

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