Picture: Ancient invaders transformed Britain
The Ethnopaleontology or paleontological Ethnology, what that?
Ethnopaleontology is a new word-sense, ided and used by I to introduce a new concept in the fields of the Ethnology and in the Paleontology, with which we intend to call a new sub-discipline of study, within the Cultural paleontology.
This new sub-discipline, called Ethnopaleontology, claims the collection, study and interpretation of concepts, roles and folk customs and/or traditional that have characterized relations between people of a cultural community, particularly with the existing fossil, in their natural environment (with indigenous fossil) and / or with the existing fossil in their cultural environment (with fossils immigrants or foreign) in the social and cultural context, individuals, a concrete historical period: p.ex. study the relationships with fossil record of society of Southwestern UK , on the XVIII-XIX centuries.
The Ethnopaleontology is the application of Cultural Paleontology, to the small scale, for this reason his research focuses on the specific features, local or sub-regional paleontological folklore, here are some examples
- What kinds or species of fossils are part of the culture unscientific Dorset?
Dorset people often call Belemnites; the bullet shaped fossils found along the beaches, 'Colepexies fingers'; and fossil sea urchins, 'Colepexies-heads', for they find one of them were considered lucky.
Belemnit sceletons, found in village Dovhe, Zakarpatska Obl. Ukraine. Photography of Oleh Petriv Picture: Wikipedia
- What are the populations included in English unscientific culture some genera and species of fossil sea urchins? Certain unusual objects found in the fields and on the beaches, were popularly called ‘thunderbolts’ or ‘thunderstones’, including fossil sea-urchins.
In Sussex in the early 20th century fossil sea-urchins were set on the outside windowsills of kitchens and dairies to stop milk going sour, because thunder was believed to ‘turn’ milk.
Picture: thunderstone
- What are the populations of northeastern of UK its are included in non-scientific culture some genera or species of fossil shells of gastropods and/or bivalves?
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What English regions have a medicinal use of fossil belemnites?
- What did English towns are used some fossils locals in their heraldry?
The coastline around Whitby is part of the “Jurassic Coast” and so abundant the fossils of ammonites. The town’s coat of arms even depicts three “snakestones”, or ammonite fossils, so well know is the area for fossils.Picture: Whitby Town Crest
- Etc., etc....
The Ethnopaleontology discipline, is considered, in the spirit of the author of this proposal, as the younger sister of Ethnobotany and ethnozoology, not by their low aspirations, but on the whole, due to their immaturity, logically derived from his youth.
It is hoped that with the passage of time and, over all, with the popularization of their objectives, procedures and results that their study will win the studious studious needed to expand and consolidate this "ethnoscience" and today, despite the great toiling facts, lack notoriously.
Possibly is that research, dissemination of experiences, opinions and debate viewpoints décrêpant, researchers and academic researchers and enthusiasts, this ethnoscience, will correct the défets shows that this article and other connected, all these errors are derived from the lack of maturity affects us today and determines the results of our work.
We believe and hope that the development of Ethnopaleontology, will complete and understand the ethnographic vision of the natural world, which started the other "ethnosciences" sisters as they are the Ethnobotany, the Ethnozoology, the Ethnoastronomy and the Ethnométéorologie, decades ago.
Bottom of the label, bottle of red wine "Tyrannosaurus Red", which appears in the graphical and textual information, most relevant, ethnopaleontológicamente: Silhouette tyrannosaurus wine name and region of origin.Picture a Screenshot at: http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7060/6946220763_8768ddfcee.jpg
The objectives and methods of study and the approaches to the Popular Culture of ethnosciences before mentioned and highly developed today have inspired the author of this proposal, objectives, methods and approaches equivalents used in the design this new field of academic study ethnonaturaliste.
So it fa many years, the author will discover their investigations and research, there are other aspects of folklore ethnographic nature, related to the non-living reality that persisted in popular culture and traditional the academic world seemed to be ignored for the moment, and he wanted to introduce their systematic study.
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