LEADER 04370nam 2200817 450 001 9910790654303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-691-24561-4 010 $a0-691-11345-9 010 $a1-4008-4931-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400849314 035 $a(CKB)2550000001130887 035 $a(EBL)1422517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001158602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11683758 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001158602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11120177 035 $a(PQKB)11400779 035 $a(OCoLC)880236638 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37086 035 $a(DE-B1597)447210 035 $a(OCoLC)861199884 035 $a(OCoLC)979632607 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400849314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1422517 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10782865 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL530596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1422517 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001130887 100 $a20040527h20052005 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFossil legends of the first Americans /$fAdrienne Mayor 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (489 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13049-3 311 $a1-299-99345-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [407]-427) and index. 327 $aMarsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aIndians$xAntiquities 606 $aIndians$vFolklore 606 $aFossils$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aFossils$zAmerica$vFolklore 606 $aTales$zAmerica 606 $aPaleontology$zAmerica 606 $aPaleoanthropology$zAmerica 607 $aAmerica$xAntiquities 615 0$aIndians$xAntiquities. 615 0$aIndians 615 0$aFossils$xHistory. 615 0$aFossils 615 0$aTales 615 0$aPaleontology 615 0$aPaleoanthropology 676 $a398/.36 686 $a73.56$2bcl 700 $aMayor$b Adrienne$f1946-$0476206 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790654303321 996 $aFossil legends of the first Americans$93792226 997 $aUNINA