Fossil Legends of the First Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fossil Legends of the First Americans write by Adrienne Mayor. This book was released on 2023-04-11. Fossil Legends of the First Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Fossil Sky
Fossil Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fossil Sky write by David Hinton. This book was released on 2004-02-23. Fossil Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic poem in the form of a lyrical map, Fossil Sky is a remarkable creation of originality and beauty. Composed on a single large sheet, it liberates poetry from the conventions of page and book. Fossil Sky distills a year of walks taken near the poet’s home, tracing the paths a mind takes through landscape, history, and ideation. The poem’s formal daring is combined with an inviting and direct personal voice, an inner voice adrift—broken up by landscape, space, time and silence. David Hinton’s many translations of ancient Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poetry. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as numerous fellowships from the NEA and the NEH.
Fossil Sky
Fossil Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fossil Sky write by David Hinton. This book was released on 2004-02-23. Fossil Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An epic poem in the form of a lyrical map, Fossil Sky is a remarkable creation of originality and beauty. Composed on a single large sheet, it liberates poetry from the conventions of page and book. Fossil Sky distills a year of walks taken near the poet’s home, tracing the paths a mind takes through landscape, history, and ideation. The poem’s formal daring is combined with an inviting and direct personal voice, an inner voice adrift—broken up by landscape, space, time and silence. David Hinton’s many translations of ancient Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poetry. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as numerous fellowships from the NEA and the NEH.
The Sky's the Limit
The Sky's the Limit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sky's the Limit write by Catherine Thimmesh. This book was released on 2002. The Sky's the Limit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents brief accounts of the work of a variety of women scientists in such fields as astronomy, biology, anthropology, and medicine.
Sky of Fossils
Sky of Fossils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sky of Fossils write by Heather Nicole Elliott. This book was released on 2011. Sky of Fossils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
