The archaeology of large-scale manipulation of prey : the economic and social dynamics of mass hunting /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
Description:	vi, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hunting, Prehistoric -- Social aspects. Hunting, Prehistoric -- Economic aspects. Hunting and gathering societies -- Food. American bison hunting. American bison hunting.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660781

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Other authors / contributors:	Carlson, Kristen, 1980- editor. Bement, Leland C., editor.
ISBN:	9781607326816 1607326817 9781607326823
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Table of Contents:

1. An Introduction to Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey: An Economic and Social Discussion
2. Territory Formation among Ancestral Blackfoot Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
3. Communal Hunting by Aboriginal Australians: Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence
4. Driving the Caribou: Greenlandic Hunting Drive Systems and Ethical Aspects
5. Are Models of Ancient Bison Population Structure Valid?
6. Microanalytical Evidence of Folsom-Aged Communal Hunting on the US Southern Great Plains
7. The Development of Paleoindian Large-Scale Bison Kills: An Isotopic Comparison
8. A New Look at Old Assumptions: Paleoindian Communal Bison Hunting, Mobility, and Stone Tool Technology
List of Contributors
Index

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