For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very
strange things with fossils. Long before a few 17th-century minds
started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been
eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, adorned on
bodies and even used to try and cause harm. What triggered such
curious behaviour was the belief, passed down from prehistoric to
Medieval times, 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 living hundreds
of thousands of years ago, fossils were the very stuff of artistic
inspiration. Drawing on archaeology, mythology and folklore,
Kenneth McNamara takes you on a journey through prehistory with
these strange and curious stones, and explores humankind's unending
quest for the meaning of fossils.
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