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

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Imprint:Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
Description:vi, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
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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