Mayor Adrienne, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Pricneton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Now for my vague memory, Plutarch says somewhere that we can know the ancients were larger and therefore mankind is constatnly diminishing in size from the size of ancient doorways.
Euripedes Medea was commisioned after execavations in Corinth turned up a burial group that was taken to be her murdered childern.
The claim about sown men also has a political dimension, asserting land rights. This is strangely operative on the fringes of American politics. Many American Indian myths include a national origin in a group of sown men. Even today some Indians insist that such myths are literaly true and that the Indians are a special creation native to North America. And this has interfered with archaeology. In particualr there are a few fossils which indicate that the first American population was a people related to the Ainu of Hokkaido (not surprising since this group occupied much of east Asia before being supplanted by modern Asiatics and the presnet Ainu are a left-over enclave like he Basque of the pre-Indoeuropeans in Europe). Some tribal groups claim hwoever that this is not trueand the remains must be Indian adn therefore should be returned to them under laws protecting Indian remains for secret burial.
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Now for my vague memory, Plutarch says somewhere that we can know the ancients were larger and therefore mankind is constatnly diminishing in size from the size of ancient doorways.
Euripedes Medea was commisioned after execavations in Corinth turned up a burial group that was taken to be her murdered childern.
The claim about sown men also has a political dimension, asserting land rights. This is strangely operative on the fringes of American politics. Many American Indian myths include a national origin in a group of sown men. Even today some Indians insist that such myths are literaly true and that the Indians are a special creation native to North America. And this has interfered with archaeology. In particualr there are a few fossils which indicate that the first American population was a people related to the Ainu of Hokkaido (not surprising since this group occupied much of east Asia before being supplanted by modern Asiatics and the presnet Ainu are a left-over enclave like he Basque of the pre-Indoeuropeans in Europe). Some tribal groups claim hwoever that this is not trueand the remains must be Indian adn therefore should be returned to them under laws protecting Indian remains for secret burial.