Monsters of Prehistory
Author | : Patrick MacDonald |
Publisher | : Bookemon |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781649942029 |
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Author | : Patrick MacDonald |
Publisher | : Bookemon |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781649942029 |
Author | : Theo Fischer |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1326638874 |
Prepare to take a journey back in time to witness the most fearsome creatures ever to walk the Earth. Enter hostile habitats; from bug-filled swamps to dinosaur deserts, and meet everything from giant scorpions and mutant reptiles to monstrous snakes and sabre tooth cats. Read on to discover the most weird, strange and terrifying creatures ever to fly, walk and swim our world, read on to discover the terrible tale of life on Earth.
Author | : Allen A. Debus |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2014-11-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0786458151 |
Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Author | : Leonora Hornblow |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780394843070 |
Briefly describes, in chronological order, many of the strange animals that lived on earth between the time life began and the appearance of humans.
Author | : David Wengrow |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691202397 |
It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and cosmopolitan trade networks that "monsters" became widespread features of visual production in the ancient world. Showing how these fantastic images originated and how they were transmitted, David Wengrow identifies patterns in the records of human image-making and embarks on a search for connections between mind and culture. Wengrow asks: Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? Wengrow considers the work of art in the first age of mechanical reproduction, which he locates in the Middle East, where urban life began. Comparing the development and spread of fantastic imagery across a range of prehistoric and ancient societies, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and China, he explores how the visual imagination has been shaped by a complex mixture of historical and universal factors. Examining the reasons behind the dissemination of monstrous imagery in ancient states and empires, The Origins of Monsters sheds light on the relationship between culture and cognition.
Author | : Dr. Robert T. Bakker |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0307983501 |
A super-simple introduction to prehistoric animals, from the first weird and wonderful life forms on Earth to the earliest Ice Age humans–and much, much more.
Author | : Michael J. Everhart |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781426200854 |
A companion volume to the 3-D "Sea Monsters" film reveals the terrifying predators that lurked in the underwater Cretaceous world, in a volume that also profiles the scientists who study these ancient monsters and the technology that made the film possible.
Author | : Leonora Hornblow |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Vertebrates, Fossil |
ISBN | : 9780394820514 |
Briefly describes, in chronological order, many of the strange animals that lived on earth between the time life began and the appearance of humans.
Author | : Liz Miles |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1482430371 |
Imagine outrunning a superfast dinosaur, just to be plucked from the ground by a pterosaur in flight. That's probably just what happened to many small prey in the age of the dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were all sizes, from creatures as small as songbirds to the biggest flyer ever known, Quetzalcoatlus. It had a wingspan of 36 feet (11 m)! Readers will get to know much more about various kinds of pterosaurs in this brilliantly illustrated book. A timeline, world map, sidebars, and diagrams further enhance the intriguing text.
Author | : Ted Oakes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Animals, Fossil |
ISBN | : 9780563488156 |
Homo sapiens began to explore the worldbeyond Africa only 100,000 years ago.These people were not primitive cavemen,but as intelligent as ourselves. Thousands ofyears before Cook or Columbus, theypioneered a route from Africa throughEurasia to Australia, northern Europe, theAmericas, and ultimately the shores ofremote islands such as New Zealand. Whatour ancestors found was not the planet thatwe know today, but instead a prehistoricworld ruled by giant animals, 'monsters' thathad risen from the ashes of the dinosaurs.Monsters We Met tells the greatest untoldstory of our species: how humansdiscovered all the continents and met Earth'sextraordinary megafauna - enormous lizards,horse-sized bears, terrible cats, colossalbirds and lumbering plant-eaters.In the first review of its kind, and drawing onthe latest research from science, archaeologyand anthropology, this book sets out toanswer some vital questions. Did we battlewith megafauna for control of Earth, or didthey disappear for other reasons? Why doesone animal, Homo sapiens dominate ourworld today, and at what cost? And whatis the message from prehistory for us now?