Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones
Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils…
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Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. 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. 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.
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 But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration.
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