Did ancient people ever uncover dinosaur fossils before the first

>>2747767
Men lived with dinosaurs. They just didn't call them dinosaurs because the word dinosaur wasn't coined until the 19th century AD.

They called them dragons, and serpents, and winged serpents, and basically sea monsters.

>>2747767
There is a theory that ice-age era creatures encountered by humans became legendary monsters such as a dragon.

>>2747786
This seems much more likely
Unfortunately OP, it's hard to know anything if at all about the origins of such a thing like dragons
Because it's literally before history.

>>2747767
There are records from China about 2000 years ago saying they found dragon bones.

Unless they were bullshitting, those were probably dinosaur bones.

>>2747784
This is your brain on creationism

>>2747784

>he doesn't realise that medieval references to dragons and monsters are allegorical

>>2747767
Yeah. Off the top of my head I know of the Chinese calling dinosaur skeletons dragons and the Greeks finding mammoth skeletons and thinking they were giants.

>>2747822
Mammoth skelletons were cyclops because they thought the nose hole was an eye hole.

>>2747767
Chinese people thought they belonged to dragons, so they powdered it and made medicine out of them.

>>2748552
Typical chinese thinking. Kinda weird it wasn't sold as viagra.

>>2747803
>>2748536
This. It's pretty clear that ancient people did occasionally come across dinosaur bones. I don't' think they were the inspiration for dragons, though; a lot of people seem to state that as fact, but that idea seems to come from projecting our knowledge back and making "common sense" assumptions. With any thought, though, the idea doesn't make much sense. People probably weren't coming across whole skeletons, so the idea that they would be able to link a few fossils with the image of a dragon is pretty ridiculous. We know what dinosaurs look like now because of detailed study and years of reconstruction efforts; ancient people didn't have that.

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>>2747767
The Imperial Chinese found dinosaur fossils thought fossils are the remains of dragons. They then subsequently used them in Chinese medicine as early as the first few dynasties. Europeans visiting China in the 19th Century saw crushed fossils sold in apothecaries over there.

A practice that continues in one province to this day, much to the anger of Chinese paleontologists.

Pic related, from Ming period court physician, Liu Wentai's "Materia Medica Containing Essential and Important Materials Arranged in Systematic Order," 1505. Basically a list of ingredients used in medicine. This chapter indicates "Dragon bone,"

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>>2747819
You're entitled to your own absurd opinion, of course.

Just not to your own facts.

>>2748588
Because, again, people did not use the word "dinosaur" before the word "dinosaur" was invented.

Look at the Chinese calendar. They are all real animals. Rats, horses, dogs, monkeys, and dragons. All real animals.

>>2748616
Chinese dragons are crocodiles.

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>>2748616
Except Eurobenises saw little cabinets of "Dragon Bone" in Chinese apothecaries and identified it as fossils, kek.

>>2748623
And Komodo dragons are dinosaurs.

Look at the skeleton of a 25' crocodile and tell me it's not a dinosaur.

From Roman–Parthian War of 161–166.

>Lucius needed to make extensive imports into Antioch, so he opened a sailing route up the Orontes. Because the river breaks across a cliff before reaching the city, Lucius ordered that a new canal be dug. After the project was completed, the Orontes' old riverbed dried up, exposing massive bones—the bones of a giant. Pausanias says they were from a beast "more than eleven cubits" tall; Philostratus says the it was "thirty cubits" tall. The oracle at Claros declared that they were the bones of the river's spirit.

>>2748633
Dinosaurs/Dragons left fossils.

Very good.

Holy shit this board cannot die fast enough.