Title Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains / Jack W. Brink

Published Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits Contents The buffalo jump -- The buffalo -- A year in the life -- The killing field -- Rounding up -- The great kill -- Cooking up the spoils -- Going home -- The end of the buffalo hunt -- The past becomes the present -- Epilogue: just a simple stone 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-334) and index Notes 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 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL 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. Indians -- Hunting -- Great Plains SPORTS & RECREATION -- Hunting. American bison American bison hunting Antiquities Buffalo jump Excavations (Archaeology) Indians of North America -- Antiquities Indians of North America -- Hunting SUBJECT Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003581 Alberta -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003224 Subject Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.) Alberta Alberta -- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site Great Plains Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781897425091 1897425090

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