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Adrienne Mayor

Fossil Legends of the First Americans

Buch

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 writ… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-13049-1
  • EAN: 9780691130491
  • Produktnummer: 19820637
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 488 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.9 cm 810 g
  • Abbildungen: 6 Maps
  • Gewicht: 810
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Adrienne Mayor, an independent scholar of natural history folklore and the early history of science, is the author of The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton) and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs (Overlook).

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