Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains /

Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains /

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Author / Creator:	Brink, Jack.
Imprint:	Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
Language:	English
Subject:	Buffalo jump -- Alberta. Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Alberta. Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Great Plains. Indians of North America -- Alberta -- Antiquities. American bison hunting -- History. American bison. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alberta. American bison. American bison hunting. Antiquities. Buffalo jump. Excavations (Archaeology) Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Hunting. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.) Alberta -- Antiquities. Alberta. Alberta -- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site. Great Plains. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198047

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Varying Form of Title:	Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains
ISBN:	9781897425091 1897425090 9781897425046 9781897425008 189742504X 1897425007
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-334) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below. Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported. He also recounts the excavation of the site and the development of the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre, which has hosted 2 million visitors since it opened in 1987. Brink's masterful blend of scholarship and public appeal is rare in any discipline, but especially in North American pre-contact archaeology. Brink attests, "I love the story that lies behind the jump--the events and planning that went into making the whole event work. I continue to learn more about the complex interaction between people, bison and the environment, and I continue to be impressed with how the ancient hunters pulled off these astonishing kills.""--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Brink, Jack. Imagining Head-Smashed-In. Edmonton, Alta. : AU Press, Athabaska University, ©2008 9781897425046 189742504X

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Summary:	At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Indigenous people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-334) and index.
ISBN:	9781897425091 1897425090 9781897425046 9781897425008 189742504X 1897425007