Anthropology

who once walked the earth. The heads with their huge teeth were what gave rise to legends about dragons and sea monsters.

Remember., entire fossils were hard to dig up with tools made of flint and antler or even with copper and bronze that replaced them. All they saw were the remains that had weathered out of the surrounding sedimentary rock.

What has always puzzled me are the elaborate cave paintings, the incredible artistry that produced such detailed drawings of animals that scientists could tell their age, sex, and what time of year they'd been represented. There are no detailed drawings of the phases of the moon or of the stars in the sky. Was Ice Age Earth a place of fog and mist? There aren't drawings of the plants that comprised abut 80% of their calories, either, but I suppose cave artists were likely men; women devoted themselves to things like making beads and other trims for what everybody was wearing. Still, the lack of appreciation for what was in the night sky has always been a total mystery, considering how obsessed people were with it later on.