Fossil Legends of the First Americans / / Adrienne Mayor.
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What d...
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Mayor, Adrienne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fossil Legends of the First Americans / Adrienne Mayor. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2005 1 online resource (488 p.) : 98 halftones. 2 line illus. 1 table. 6 maps. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Geological Time Scale -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: HELL CREEK, MONTANA, SUMMER 1998 -- INTRODUCTION: Marsh Monsters of Big Bone Lick -- CHAPTER 1. The Northeast: Giants, Great Bears, and Grandfather of the Buffalo -- CHAPTER 2. New Spain: Bones of Fear and Birds of Terro -- CHAPTER 3. The Southwest: Fossil Fetishes and Monster Slayers -- CHAPTER 4. The Prairies: Fossil Medicine and Spirit Animals -- CHAPTER 5. The High Plains: Thunder Birds, Water Monsters, and Buffalo-Calling Stones -- CONCLUSION: Common Ground -- APPENDIX: Fossil Frauds and Specious Legends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed. 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) Fossils America Folklore. Fossils America History. Indians Folklore. Indians Antiquities. Paleoanthropology America. Paleontology America. Tales America. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691130491 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400849314 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400849314 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400849314.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Geological Time Scale -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: HELL CREEK, MONTANA, SUMMER 1998 -- INTRODUCTION: Marsh Monsters of Big Bone Lick -- CHAPTER 1. The Northeast: Giants, Great Bears, and Grandfather of the Buffalo -- CHAPTER 2. New Spain: Bones of Fear and Birds of Terro -- CHAPTER 3. The Southwest: Fossil Fetishes and Monster Slayers -- CHAPTER 4. The Prairies: Fossil Medicine and Spirit Animals -- CHAPTER 5. The High Plains: Thunder Birds, Water Monsters, and Buffalo-Calling Stones -- CONCLUSION: Common Ground -- APPENDIX: Fossil Frauds and Specious Legends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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