Dragons’ Teeth And Thunderstones: The Quest For Meaning Of Fossils Ken Mcnamara Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science General

For At Least Half A Million Years People Have Been Doing Some Very Strange Things With Fossils Long Before Few Seventeenth-Century Minds Started To Decipher Their True Organic Nature Had Eaten Dropped In Goblets Of Wine Buried The Dead And Adorned Bodies What Triggered Such Curious Behaviour Was Belief That Could Cure Illness Protect Against Being Poisoned Ease Passage Into Afterlife Ward Off Evil Spirits Even Kill Those Who Were Just Plain Annoying But Above All Our Early Prehistoric Ancestors Stuff Artistic Inspiration Drawing On Archaeology Mythology Folklore Ken Mcnamara Takes You Journey Through Prehistory These Stones Explores Humankind’s Unending Quest Meaning Σελίδες: 288 Διαστάσεις: 13 8X13 8Cm