The Gazelle's Dream : Game Drives of the Old and New Worlds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Betts, A. V. G.

Contributor:

Van Pelt, W. Paul.

Abu-Azizeh, Wael.

Series:

Adapa Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting customs.

Hunting--History.

Hunting.

Trapping--History.

Trapping.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Once the world's prairies, grasslands, steppes and tundra teemed with massive herds of game: gazelle, wild ass, bison, caribou and antelope. Humans seeking to hunt these large fast-moving herds devised a range of specialised traps that share many characteristics across all continents. Typically consisting of guiding walls or lines of stones leading to an enclosure or trap, game drives were designed for a mass killing. Construction of the game drive, organisation of the hunt and processing of the carcass often required group co-operation and in many cases game drives have been linked to seasonal gatherings of otherwise scattered groups, who may have used these occasions not only to hunt, but also for social, ritual and economic activities. The Gazelle's Dream: Game Drives of the Old and New Worlds is the first comparative study of game drives, examining this mode of hunting across three continents and a broad range of periods. The book describes the hunting of bison in North America, reindeer in Scandinavia, antelope in Tibet and an extensive array of examples from the greater Middle East, from Egypt to Armenia. The Gazelle's Dream will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of hunting and wildlife management.

Contents:

Intro

Half title page

Adapa Monographs

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of figures

List of plates

List of tables

Preface

Introduction

1 Communal bison drives of the northern Plains of North America

2 The bison hunting complex in the northern Rocky Mountain foothills

3 Ancient reindeer hunting in Oppland, Norway

4 Hunting with kites in Armenia

5 Kites of Syria, southern Turkey and western Iraq

6 Game drives in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan

7 Discovery and excavation of desert kites in the south-eastern Badia of Jordan

8 Small, sparse and effective: the Negev and Sinai kites

9 Kites in Saudi Arabia

10 Kites in central Yemen

11 The ancient game traps at Gharb Aswan and across Lower Nubia (north-east Africa)

12 The desert kites of the Ustyurt Plateau

13 Dzaekha game drives for antelope hunting on the north-western Tibetan Plateau

About the contributors

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781743327777

1743327773

9781743327784

1743327781

OCLC:

1287130761