The First Fossil Hunters : : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / / Adrienne Mayor.
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous cre...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | With a New introduction by the author |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 63 halftones. 17 line illus. 1 tables. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781400838448 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)447012 (OCoLC)979749809 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Mayor, Adrienne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / Adrienne Mayor. With a New introduction by the author Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (400 p.) : 63 halftones. 17 line illus. 1 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION -- GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- Introduction -- Historical Time Line -- CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend -- CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands -- CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones -- CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries -- CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils -- CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions -- APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World -- APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact--in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Paleontology Greece History. Paleontology Rome History. Science, Ancient. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691150130 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838448 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838448 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838448.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Mayor, Adrienne, Mayor, Adrienne, |
spellingShingle |
Mayor, Adrienne, Mayor, Adrienne, The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION -- GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- Introduction -- Historical Time Line -- CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend -- CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands -- CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones -- CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries -- CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils -- CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions -- APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World -- APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
author_facet |
Mayor, Adrienne, Mayor, Adrienne, |
author_variant |
a m am a m am |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Mayor, Adrienne, |
title |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / |
title_sub |
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / |
title_full |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / Adrienne Mayor. |
title_fullStr |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / Adrienne Mayor. |
title_full_unstemmed |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / Adrienne Mayor. |
title_auth |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION -- GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- Introduction -- Historical Time Line -- CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend -- CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands -- CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones -- CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries -- CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils -- CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions -- APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World -- APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
title_new |
The First Fossil Hunters : |
title_sort |
the first fossil hunters : dinosaurs, mammoths, and myth in greek and roman times / |
publisher |
Princeton University Press, |
publishDate |
2011 |
physical |
1 online resource (400 p.) : 63 halftones. 17 line illus. 1 tables. Issued also in print. |
edition |
With a New introduction by the author |
contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION -- GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- Introduction -- Historical Time Line -- CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend -- CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands -- CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones -- CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries -- CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils -- CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions -- APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World -- APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
isbn |
9781400838448 9783110442502 9780691150130 |
callnumber-first |
Q - Science |
callnumber-subject |
Q - General Science |
callnumber-label |
Q111 |
callnumber-sort |
Q 3111 |
geographic_facet |
Greece Rome |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838448 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838448 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838448.jpg |
illustrated |
Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
500 - Science |
dewey-tens |
560 - Fossils & prehistoric life |
dewey-ones |
560 - Paleontology; paleozoology |
dewey-full |
560 |
dewey-sort |
3560 |
dewey-raw |
560 |
dewey-search |
560 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9781400838448 |
oclc_num |
979749809 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT mayoradrienne thefirstfossilhuntersdinosaursmammothsandmythingreekandromantimes AT mayoradrienne firstfossilhuntersdinosaursmammothsandmythingreekandromantimes |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)447012 (OCoLC)979749809 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
is_hierarchy_title |
The First Fossil Hunters : Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
_version_ |
1806143562008494080 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05488nam a22008175i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781400838448</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210729020517.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210729t20112011nju fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1013944020</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1029836188</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1032680473</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1037982572</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1042030451</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1046616692</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1046999869</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1049629976</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1054881470</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781400838448</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9781400838448</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)447012</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)979749809</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nju</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NJ</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Q111</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS002000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">560</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mayor, Adrienne, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The First Fossil Hunters :</subfield><subfield code="b">Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times /</subfield><subfield code="c">Adrienne Mayor.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">With a New introduction by the author</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Princeton, NJ : </subfield><subfield code="b">Princeton University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2011]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2011</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (400 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">63 halftones. 17 line illus. 1 tables.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CONTENTS -- </subfield><subfield code="t">ILLUSTRATIONS -- </subfield><subfield code="t">INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION -- </subfield><subfield code="t">GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Historical Time Line -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions -- </subfield><subfield code="t">APPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World -- </subfield><subfield code="t">APPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Works Cited -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact--in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Paleontology</subfield><subfield code="z">Greece</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Paleontology</subfield><subfield code="z">Rome</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Science, Ancient.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / Ancient / General.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110442502</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780691150130</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838448</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838448</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838448.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-044250-2 Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |