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.
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Ken McNamara es un paleontólogo cuya perdurable fascinación por los fósiles comenzó en su infancia. Su trabajo está profundamente arraigado en su dedicación de por vida al estudio y la recolección de estos antiguos vestigios, una pasión que continúa como curador en el Museo de Australia Occidental. McNamara tiende un puente entre el rigor científico y el compromiso público, contribuyendo tanto a obras académicas como a exposiciones de museos accesibles. Su investigación y escritos ofrecen una ventana única al mundo prehistórico, reflejando una carrera moldeada por una curiosidad inquebrantable.
- 2023
- 2020
Dragons' Teeth and Thunderstones. The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
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.
