# griffin decolonize nativeamericans fossils fossilfriday

Beaked dinosaur fossils did not "inspire" the of classical antiquity
but descriptions & observations may have confirmed & helped to perpetuate the story of a fierce mammal w beak lurking in Central Asian deserts in a specific time period ca 650 BC -AD 300

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2021-10-19

thanks to early Spanish colonists in the 1500s, we know of Aztec, Inca, and other ancient oral traditions about discoveries & interpretations of large vertebrate fossils
How to this?
Drawn by Ed Heck colored by Michele Angel for of the First Americans

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2021-01-30

Custer's Crow Scout Curly quoted on pp 298-99
The Crow people often observed dinosaur and other fossils weathering out of the soil

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2019-06-30