Imagining Head-Smashed-In Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains
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, worki...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alta. :
AU Press, Athabaska University
c2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746162906719 |
| Sumario: | 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 t |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781282819498 9786612819490 9781897425091 |
