Cheryl Brandt's Reviews > The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

I have finished the book itself and am working my way through the Appendices and footnotes. This book is very dense - it has only 5 chapters, and the rest of the book is taken up by appendices and footnotes - but it has been not only enjoyable but enlightening. I'm finding the footnotes almost as interesting as the text itself was.

I first read something about the linkage between fossils and folklore/mythology many years ago, and never saw anything further about it - but it always made sense to me as a hypothesis.

To find it now, more fully fleshed out, with classical references, historical images and descriptions, is an exciting find.

To also find that this book has helped create a new field of study that brings together the sciences of archaeology and paleontology and the studies of the Greek and Roman classics, and the mythology and folklore of many different peoples while still being readable and enjoyable is a wonderful find.