Bronze Age Paleontologists

Fossilized astragalus

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil hunting may have begun during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600–1050 b.c.), but until recently, evidence of this has been spare. Now, in the artifact collection at the site of the Bronze Age city of Mycenae, zooarchaeologist Jacqueline Meier of the University of North Florida and h