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Sometimes ancient folklore preserves genuine knowledge and observations of fossils thousands of years ago
#FirstFossilHunters #FolkloreThursday #FossilFriday
@megalithictimes @archeohistories My book #FirstFossilHunters records more than 100 historical discoveries, observations, & speculations about remarkable remains of extinct creatures described by about 30 Greek & Latin writers from Herodotus to Augustine, rather than "myths about finding fossils"
@JPZanders also recommend Edward Dolnick's "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party"!
--both cite my #FirstFossilHunters book : )
@hughs_news on hoaxes like these fake artifacts and claims that ancient people saw living dinosaurs, see the Appendix in my books #FossilLegends of the First Americans and chapter 6 of #FirstFossilHunters
For #FossilFriday
@hughs_news So good! Oh, and adding @amayor's brilliant #FirstFossilHunters for the record. 😉
https://t.co/7yU26TuGwy
Damien Hirst's "Cyclops Skull" from "Treasures from the Wreck of the Impossible"exhibit, Venice Biennale 2017, inspired by my book #FirstFossilHunters
https://t.co/bIJVhHcH5K
#ClassicsTober Day 10: Asclepius
Giant fossil bones & teeth of Pleistocene mammoths displayed in temples of Asclepius at Megalopolis & Asopos, per Pausanias.
Mammoth tooth found in Asclepion at Kos in 1926 by paleontologist Barnum Brown
#FossilFriday #FirstFossilHunters
Review of #FirstFossilHunters
American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 107, No 2 https://t.co/j84zMbuLHT
Jurassic marine reptile fossil bone discovered in ancient Roman burial shows that Romans were some of the #FirstFossilHunters
https://t.co/SuadFQFPDz via @YahooCASports
all of these episodes in ancient Roman fossil collecting are discussed in detail in my book
#FirstFossilHunters
1) An ancient Roman-dinosaur-monster-bones thread! Yes you read that right - did you know the Romans were keen fossil hunters, fascinated by the bones of ancient "monsters". Augustus liked to decorate his holiday-villa "not so much with statues and pictures but with..."
@jens2go @Cambslive as far as I know, this is the first dinosaur-era fossil found in an ancient Roman archaeological site!
Very exciting discovery--only 3 other archaeological excavations have recovered large vertebrate fossil bones collected by ancient Greeks and Romans
#FirstFossilHunters
"One can only imagine what ancient Romans thought" about dinosaur fossils they found in England
This is the first-ever dinosaur-era fossil discovered in an ancient Roman archaeological site
Find out what they thought here:
#FirstFossilHunters
#FossilFriday
On trouvaient déjà des fossiles de reptiles du Mésozoique à l'époque de la Rome Antique !!!
(Mais ça vous le saviez déjà grâce aux livres de @amayor)
https://t.co/DlyqnrDxDh
Ok, sometimes we *do* dig #dinosaurs. 🤷🏻♂️
Lucky find of a fossilised plesiosaur vertebrae … among an assemblage of #Roman material in #Cambridge (paging @amayor's #FirstFossilHunters 😉):
https://t.co/VLEzqwsHWG via @Cambslive
@rogueclassicist @ClassicalAssoc1 @RosieWyles @BloomsburyClass @TCDClassics @ClassicsUCD @MU_Classics @GalwayClassics @classicsforall @ClassicsNowFest @CLIC_ERC @irish_athens Satyr masks reconstructed from ancient Greek vase paintings of theatrical Satyr masks, photo Gerard Seiterle, Figs 6.3, 6.4 #FirstFossilHunters. 238
@MarkusBhler10 for whale skeletons interpreted as sea monsters in antiquity, see #FirstFossilHunters
What did ancient people think about huge fossils of extinct creatures?
Find out in #FirstFossilHunters
@amayor & Pleistocene woolly rhino femur collected by ancient Greeks at Nichoria
Ana Pinto & mammoth fossil thigh bone
Map of ancient discoveries of fossil beds
#FossilFriday
@brenenwynd @amjukar @bonz_us @LEW999 see this book: #FirstFossilHunters for ancient discoveries and interpretations of remarkble fossil remains of extinct animals
@AstrophysicalAC @ConalJarvis #FirstFossilHunters and #FossilLegends of the First Americans, discoveries and interpretations of large vertebrate fossils in pre-Darwinian cultures
Greeks & Romans did discover, excavate, measure, & display fossils of remarkable size, but the bones belonged to giant mammals of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, not #dinosaurs
#FirstFossilHunters
NEW VIDEO: Did the Romans Meet the Dinosaurs?
Did people in the past come across fossils? How did they wrap their heads around these massive bones?!
Watch it now!🔽
🔗 https://t.co/HLcWVsbuBB
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