Greeks, Romans, and Fossils
Brian Akers
Sfauthor at AOL.COM
Sat Jul 8 17:32:16 UTC 2000
There is an interesting article at this URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/070400sci-archaeo-greece.html
Here is one paragraph from it:
Yet much like today's fossil
hunters, Ms. Mayor found,
ancient Greeks and Romans
collected and measured the
petrified bones they encountered
and displayed them in temples
and museums. They, too,
recognized fossils as evidence of
past life, now extinct,
anticipating Cuvier by more than
2,000 years.
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Brian Dana Akers
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