Fossil legends of the first Americans / Adrienne Mayor.

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This 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 stori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Antiquities.
Indigenous peoples > Folklore.
Fossils > America > History.
Fossils > America > Folklore.
Tales > America.
Paleontology > America.
Paleoanthropology > America.
America > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Fossils.
Indians.
Indians > Antiquities.
Paleoanthropology.
Paleontology.
Tales.
America.
Folklore.
History.
Genre:
Folklore.
History.
Physical Description:xxxix, 446 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) photographs (black and white) ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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