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INTRODUCTION - MARSH MONSTERS OF BIG BONE LICK
Everybody should know by now is that you have to take ANYTHING a white person says regarding any indigenous cultures with a big grain of salt. Accordingly, popular (and actual) historian Adrienne Mayor makes clear from the outset that her goal is to reproduce as faithfully as possible the oral traditions of indigenous americans and their connection to NA fossils.
— Jun 29, 2023 06:51PM
Everybody should know by now is that you have to take ANYTHING a white person says regarding any indigenous cultures with a big grain of salt. Accordingly, popular (and actual) historian Adrienne Mayor makes clear from the outset that her goal is to reproduce as faithfully as possible the oral traditions of indigenous americans and their connection to NA fossils.
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CHAPTER 3: THE SOUTHWEST
A heavy focus (almost half of the chapter) on Navajo mythology and cultural psychology, describing a pervasive fear of death in Navajo culture influenced these people to react with awe and respect to vertebrate fossils from the World of Monsters. Contrast with other cultures including Hopi, Zuni, Anasazi, and Apache from this region, who collected fossils as magical objects
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A heavy focus (almost half of the chapter) on Navajo mythology and cultural psychology, describing a pervasive fear of death in Navajo culture influenced these people to react with awe and respect to vertebrate fossils from the World of Monsters. Contrast with other cultures including Hopi, Zuni, Anasazi, and Apache from this region, who collected fossils as magical objects
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CHAPTER TWO: NEW SPAIN
Continuing clockwise around the american continent, landing in South, Central, and southern North America to see the evidence of links between the myths of the Inca, Maya, Aztec, and other cultures and the giant Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Cretaceous vertebrate fossils found in the region. The question is raised regarding the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl being an interpretation of a pterosaur
— Jul 03, 2023 04:33PM
Continuing clockwise around the american continent, landing in South, Central, and southern North America to see the evidence of links between the myths of the Inca, Maya, Aztec, and other cultures and the giant Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Cretaceous vertebrate fossils found in the region. The question is raised regarding the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl being an interpretation of a pterosaur
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CHAPTER 1. THE NORTHEAST
The author recounts oral traditions from Iroquois, Algonquin, Delaware, and other northeastern cultures, which describe ancient monsters who plagued the early people. She then uses historical metadata such as the contemporary relationships between native people and various European factions at the time of fossil discoveries in the region to determine if the myths are rooted in reality.
— Jul 01, 2023 09:03PM
The author recounts oral traditions from Iroquois, Algonquin, Delaware, and other northeastern cultures, which describe ancient monsters who plagued the early people. She then uses historical metadata such as the contemporary relationships between native people and various European factions at the time of fossil discoveries in the region to determine if the myths are rooted in reality.
