TESTIMONIOS DEL PASADO.
Subtitle: Historia, mitos y creencias sobre los fósiles.
Publisher: Editorial Milenio. Lleida. Spain.; Milenio Publicaciones S.L.
Published: July 2010
Place of publication: Lleida. Spain.
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
Description: The author has attempted to express in his book that aroused the curiosity of fossils in humans over the centuries. From the observation of important Petrefacta and ignorance of its forms and origins as well as the places where they were, were generated many beliefs and myths that were maintained for many generations in both the European continent and beyond. However, little by little, new discoveries and the dissemination of knowledge were building an increasingly detailed framework on the significance of fossils and their environment, resulting in early nineteenth century, geology and paleontology as a science studying the Earth and the various agencies that have inhabited for over millions of years.

Contine over 75 images.
Table of contents: title: 21 chapters.; title: Introduction.The fossils of sea urchins. Shark teeth on the rocks.; title: Ammonites, extinct cephalopods. Belemnites, the squids of the geologic past. The fossils and the Flood. Renaissance ideas. The persistence of the Flood. The chronology of the world and the Flood. A Flood geologic. The Year of the Flood: 1617. Shells on the rocks. Mammoth bones and teeth. The giant St. Cristofer. The giants of America. Against the giants. Patagones giants: a separate chapter. America and the bones of huge and unknown beasts. Dragons. St. George and the dragon. Interview with Father Jose Torrubia. Hysterolites and priapolites: stones with sex. Legacies of the past. What is a fossil? Fossilization. Special Preserves: in sediment rock, specials, freezing, amber, tracks, footprints, etc.; title: The age of fossils. At the end.