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An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, Kazakhstan. Ancient petroglyphs in the Altai region depict eagle hunters, and inscribed Chinese stone reliefs show eagles perched on the arms of hunters in tunics, trousers, and boots, identified as northern nomads (1st to 2nd century A.D.).
~ Adrienne Mayor
Ancient
Arms
Boots
Buried
Century
Chinese
Depict
Eagle
Eagles
Hunters
Identified
Near
Nomad
Northern
Region
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Skeleton
Stone
Trousers
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Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Absolutely
Anyone
Female
Games
Hunger
Hunger Games
Idea
Knows
Ridiculous
Watched
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Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Arrows
Been
Bows
Digging
Fought
Graves
Greeks
Horses
Hunted
Just
Like
Men
Out
People
Rode
Thousands
Turn
Up
Used
Whose
Women
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As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Accompanied
Down
Early
Education
European
Explorer
French
Group
Gulf
Had
His
Historic
Indians
Iroquois
La
Latin
Literate
Many
Mexico
Mississippi
Some
Spoke
Voyage
Were
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Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Artist
Based
Before
Began
Classical
Concentrating
Free
Free Time
Literature
Making
Readings
Selling
Stories
Time
Writing
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Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Abound
Antiquity
Burial
Eagle
Evidence
Hunting
Imagery
Other
Pointing
Who
Whose
Years
Years Ago
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From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to China, was home to diverse but culturally related nomads. Known as Scythians to Greeks, Saka to the Persians, and Xiongnu to the Chinese, the steppe tribes were masters of horses and archery.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Archery
Black
China
Chinese
Diverse
Greeks
Home
Horses
Known
Masters
Related
Sea
Stretching
Territory
Tribes
Vast
Were
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Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Asked
Canada
Compete
Encountered
European
Fossil
Historical
Horns
Ivory
Looking
Natives
Other
Records
Russian
Show
Sources
Teeth
Trade
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I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Always
Book
Course
Find
Great
Incorporate
Intricate
Kind
Last
Last-Minute
Material
Minute
Obstacle
Process
Research
Rewards
Slow
Tend
Thrilling
Up
Very
Writing
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I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Abundant
Also
Amazing
Discovered
Embedded
Fossil
Fossils
Greek
Knowledge
Lot
Myths
Natural
Out
People
Perceptions
Places
Pretty
Showing
Sites
Specific
Take
Those
Turn
Were
You
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I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Got
Had
Historical
How
Hunch
Interested
Just
Might
Myths
Nature
Oral
Reality
Scientific
Stories
Truth
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I think that the Greeks were extremely ambivalent about the stories of Amazons: they found them both thrilling and rather daunting at the same time.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Ambivalent
Both
Daunting
Extremely
Found
Greeks
I Think
Rather
Same
Same Time
Stories
Them
Think
Thrilling
Time
Were
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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Again
Appeal
Could
Egalitarian
Equality
Get
Granted
Happen
Happened
I Think
Key
Logical
Message
Most
Necessary
Once
People
Place
Society
Taken
Think
Time
Where
Whole
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I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Books
California
Challenge
Desk
Different
Different Places
Fossils
High
I Write
Instead
Interesting
Laptop
Montana
Myriad
Nothing
Oak
Old
Papers
Piled
Places
Rocks
Space
Spare
Summers
Surrounded
Table
Two
Very
Whose
Write
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I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.
~ Adrienne Mayor
About
Always
Antiquity
Attempts
Been
Explain
Heard
Interested
Legends
Mysterious
Nature
Observed
Oral
People
Phenomena
Puzzling
Stories
Striking
Things
Traditions
Very
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If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Apart
Common
Could
Each
Far
Life
Love
Made
Meet
Other
Place
Queen
Real
Real Life
Recognize
Sister
Sites
Somehow
Storytellers
Tales
Time
Tradition
Two
War
Who
Women
Would
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In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Along
April
Big
Bone
Gone
Here
Kentucky
Large
Lick
Light
Long
Long Gone
Loom
Occasional
Ohio
Other
Out
Park
River
Skeletons
Sometimes
State
Though
Used
Visited
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In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Admires
Allies
Anyone
Asia
Beauty
Central
China
Courage
Egypt
Even
Fights
Literature
Oral
Persia
Stories
Them
Traditions
Wanna
Want
Who
Written
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In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Among
Anything
Canada
Century
Could
Even
French
Horn
Legend
Missionary
Monster
Pierce
Reported
Rock
Strange
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Indeed, many ancient Greek writers do treat Amazons as a tribe of men and women. They credit the tribe with innovations such as ironworking and domestication of horses. Some early vase paintings show men fighting alongside Amazons.
~ Adrienne Mayor
Alongside
Ancient
Credit
Early
Fighting
Greek
Horses
Indeed
Innovations
Many
Men
Men And Women
Paintings
Show
Some
Treat
Tribe
Vase
Women
Writers
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