| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
An introduction to large scale manipulation of prey : an economic and social discussion / Leland C. Bement -- Territory formation among ancestral Blackfoot bison hunters of the Northwestern Plains / María Nieves Zedeño -- Communal hunting by Aboriginal Australians : archaeological and ethnographic evidence / Jane Balme -- Driving the caribou : Greenlandic hunting drive systems and ethical aspects / Ulla Odgaard -- Are models of ancient bison population structure valid? / David Maxwell and Jonathan Driver -- Micro-analytical evidence of Folsom-aged communal hunting on the U.S. Southern Great Plains / Adam C. Graves -- The development of Paleoindian large scale bison kills : an isotopic comparison / Kristen Carlson and Leland Bement -- A new look at old assumptions : Paleoindian communal bison hunting, mobility, and stone tool technology / John D. Speth |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 25, 2018) |
| Subject |
Hunting, Prehistoric -- Social aspects
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Hunting, Prehistoric -- Economic aspects
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Food
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American bison hunting.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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American bison hunting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlson, Kristen, 1980- editor.
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Bement, Leland C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781607326823 |
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1607326825 |
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