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Antieke wetenschap --- Science [Ancient ] --- Science de l'antiquité --- Wetenschap [Antieke ] --- Wetenschap van de Oudheid --- Paleontology --- Science, Ancient --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- History --- Science, Ancient. --- History. --- Paléontologie --- Sciences anciennes --- Histoire --- Greece --- Rome

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The 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.

Fossiles --- Human paleontology --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Paleoanthropology --- Paleontology --- Tales --- Fossils --- Indians --- Anthropology, Prehistoric --- Physical anthropology --- Fossil hominids --- Palaeontology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Archaeology --- History. --- Antiquities. --- America --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Contes --- Paléontologie --- Folklore --- Antiquités --- Amérique --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Indian antiquities --- Indian artifacts

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Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book--the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years--Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before. The Poison King describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. The Poison King is a gripping account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Poisoning --- Empoisonnement --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Mithridates --- Pontus --- Rome --- Mediterranean Region --- Black Sea Region --- Pont (Région ancienne) --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Noire, Région de la mer --- Kings and rulers --- Biography --- History. --- History --- History, Military. --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Histoire militaire --- Empoisonnement (Droit pénal) --- Mithridate --- Pont (Région ancienne) --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Noire, Région de la mer --- History, Military --- Toxicological emergencies --- Toxicology --- Political aspects&delete& --- Mithradatēs, --- Mithradates --- Mithridates, --- Mithridatos --- Mitridat Evpator, --- Mitridate Eupatore, --- Mitridate --- Mitrydat --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Poisoning - Political aspects - Rome - History --- Empoisonnement (Droit pénal) - Aspect politique - Rome - Histoire --- Rois et souverains - Pont (Région ancienne) - Biographies --- Mithridates - VI Eupator, - King of Pontus, - ca. 132-63 B.C. --- Mithridate - VI Eupator, - roi du Pont, - ca 132-63 av. J.-C. --- Pontus - Kings and rulers - Biography --- Pontus - History --- Rome - History - Mithridatic Wars, 88-63 B.C. --- Black Sea Region - History, Military --- Mediterranean Region - History, Military --- Pont (Région ancienne) - Histoire --- Rome - Histoire - 88-63 av. J.-C. (Guerres contre Mithridate) --- Méditerranée, Région de la - Histoire militaire --- Noire, Région de la mer - Histoire militaire --- Mithridate (roi du Pont ; 0132?-0063 av. J.-C.) --- Intoxication --- Méditerranée (région) --- Mer Noire (région) --- Antiquité

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Mythology, Classical. --- Curiosities and wonders.

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Amazons-fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world-were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons.But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China.Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons-Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China.Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.

Women, Prehistoric --- Women, Prehistoric. --- Women soldiers --- Mythology, Greek. --- Amazons in literature. --- Amazons. --- Social conditions. --- History.