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Science 27 May 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5726, pp. 1261 - 1262
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111126
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Sifting Myths for Truths About Our World

Abigail A. Baird

When They Severed Earth from Sky How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 310 pp. $29.95, £18.95. ISBN 0-691-09986-3.
The authors, archaeologists, argue that myths contain elements of truth about the natural world and that we can use them as artifacts of sorts.
The reviewer is at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. E-mail: abigail.a.baird{at}dartmouth.edu

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