Publicado por Princeton University Press 4/11/2023, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0691245606 ISBN 13: 9780691245607
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2023
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythologyGriffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, 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 fossilised 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton Univ Pr, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton Univ Pr, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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Publicado por Princeton University Press, 2023
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