LEADER 04955nam 22007575 450 001 9910789521503321 005 20220310032750.0 010 $a1-283-22741-X 010 $a9786613227416 010 $a1-4008-3844-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400838448 035 $a(CKB)2670000000106161 035 $a(EBL)741586 035 $a(OCoLC)745865841 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536701 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11359155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536701 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10550281 035 $a(PQKB)10067912 035 $a(OCoLC)751978631 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36726 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00071388 035 $a(DE-B1597)447012 035 $a(OCoLC)1013944020 035 $a(OCoLC)1029836188 035 $a(OCoLC)1032680473 035 $a(OCoLC)1037982572 035 $a(OCoLC)1042030451 035 $a(OCoLC)1046616692 035 $a(OCoLC)1046999869 035 $a(OCoLC)1049629976 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881470 035 $a(OCoLC)979749809 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400838448 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC741586 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000106161 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe first fossil hunters $edinosaurs, mammoths, and myth in Greek and Roman times /$fAdrienne Mayor, with a new introduction by the author 205 $aWith a New introduction by the author 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (xxx, 361 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-15013-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION --$tGEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE --$tIntroduction --$tHistorical Time Line --$tCHAPTER 1. The Gold-Guarding Griffin: A Paleontological Legend --$tCHAPTER 2. Earthquakes and Elephants: Prehistoric Remains in Mediterranean Lands --$tCHAPTER 3. Ancient Discoveries of Giant Bones --$tCHAPTER 4. Artistic and Archaeological Evidence for Fossil Discoveries --$tCHAPTER 5. Mythology, Natural Philosophy, and Fossils --$tCHAPTER 6. Centaur Bones: Paleontological Fictions --$tAPPENDIX 1. Large Vertebrate Fossil Species in the Ancient World --$tAPPENDIX 2. Ancient Testimonia --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aGriffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, 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 fossilized 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. 606 $aScience, Ancient 606 $aPaleontology$zRome$xHistory 606 $aPaleontology$zGreece$xHistory 615 0$aScience, Ancient. 615 0$aPaleontology$xHistory. 615 0$aPaleontology$xHistory. 676 $a560 700 $aMayor$b Adrienne$f1946-$0476206 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789521503321 996 $aThe first fossil hunters$93677037 997 $aUNINA