An illumination of the the hidden world of rocks - the secret-keepers of past environments, of changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years.
Ken McNamara Knihy
Ken McNamara je paleontológ, ktorého pretrvávajúca fascinácia skamenelinami sa začala už v detstve. Jeho práca je hlboko zakorenená v celoživotnom záujme o štúdium a zbieranie týchto starovekých pozostatkov, čo je vášeň, ktorú naďalej rozvíja ako kurátor v Západomaustralijskom múzeu. McNamara spája vedeckú dôslednosť s verejným záujmom, prispieva k odborným dielam aj k prístupným múzejným výstavám. Jeho výskum a spisy ponúkajú jedinečný pohľad do prehistorického sveta, odrážajúc kariéru formovanú neochvejnou zvedavosťou.
Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones. The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils
- 288 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were just plain annoying. But above all, to our early prehistoric ancestors, fossils were the very stuff of artistic inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, and folklore, Ken McNamara takes us on a journey through prehistory with these curious stones, and he explores humankind’s unending quest for the meaning of fossils.
