The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting / edited by Kristen Carlson and Leland Bement.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bement, Leland C., editor.

Carlson, Kristen, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American bison hunting.

Hunting and gathering societies--Food.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Hunting, Prehistoric--Economic aspects.

Hunting, Prehistoric.

Hunting, Prehistoric--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"Expands the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms where large-scale hunting adaptations evolved, primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom Period on the Great Plains to the ethnographic present in Australia"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An introduction to large scale manipulation of prey : an economic and social discussion / Leland C. Bement

Territory formation among ancestral Blackfoot bison hunters of the Northwestern Plains / María Nieves Zedeño

Communal hunting by Aboriginal Australians : archaeological and ethnographic evidence / Jane Balme

Driving the caribou : Greenlandic hunting drive systems and ethical aspects / Ulla Odgaard

Are models of ancient bison population structure valid? / David Maxwell and Jonathan Driver

Micro-analytical evidence of Folsom-aged communal hunting on the U.S. Southern Great Plains / Adam C. Graves

The development of Paleoindian large scale bison kills : an isotopic comparison / Kristen Carlson and Leland Bement

A new look at old assumptions : Paleoindian communal bison hunting, mobility, and stone tool technology / John D. Speth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607326823

1607326825

OCLC:

1037272760