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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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