Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones
Title | Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones PDF eBook |
Author | Ken McNamara |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2020-08-06 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 178914289X |
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. 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. 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. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. 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 fossils.
Dragons' Teeth
Title | Dragons' Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | James Pycroft |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
Dragons Teeth
Title | Dragons Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Pycroft James |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780259646785 |
Dragon's Teeth
Title | Dragon's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Gilbert Philip |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sowing Dragon's Teeth
Title | Sowing Dragon's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Dragon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dragons' Teeth. [A novel.]
Title | Dragons' Teeth. [A novel.] PDF eBook |
Author | James Pycroft |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Dragon's Teeth
Title | The Dragon's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Mitchell Sample |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781290773102 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.