ISBN:
9781138816008
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (434 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
Parallel Title:
Print version Hunters of the Recent Past
DDC:
639.10901
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwid
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Meat in due season: the timing of communal hunts; Introduction; Communal hunting; Seasonality: general considerations; Seasonality in large mammals; Ethnographic data; Why communal hunting?; Conclusions; 2 Corralling: evidence from Upper Paleolithic cave art; Lascaux; Altamira; Depiction of drive lanes and corrals; Ritual and economics; The economy of corralling; Conclusion; 3 Mammoth hunting in the New World; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Mammoth herd demographicsUtilization of mammoth bone, Old and New World; Butchering strategies: actualistic studies; Hunting strategies; The Lange-Ferguson site; Conclusions; 4 Paleoindians and proboscideans: ecological determinants of selectivity in the southwestern United States; Introduction; Optimal foraging and prey selection; Methods; Evaluation of factors relative to proboscidean procurement; Hypothetical orientation; Analysis and discussion; Conclusions; Summary; 5 Taphonomic provenience and mammoth bone modification; Introduction; Taphonomic context and provenience as concepts
Description / Table of Contents:
ApplicationsConclusion; 6 Was early man in North America a big game hunter?; 7 Alternative hunting strategies in Plains Paleoindian adaptations; Introduction; The Lamb Spring site; Paleoindian kill sites on the Northern Plains; Discussion; Conclusion; 8 The Maple Leaf site: implications of the analysis of small-scale bison kills; Introduction; Site setting; Stratigraphy and dating; Herd composition and seasonality; Spatial patterning; Butchering patterns; Conclusions; 9 Thoughts on the structure and function of drive lane systems at communal buffalo jumps; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The historic and ethnographic recordsHead-Smashed-In drive lanes; Drive lane function; The oasis theory; Conclusion; 10 Communal bison hunters of the Northern Plains; Introduction; The importance of pemmican; The role of the bow and arrow; Facts of life and cultural evolution on the Northern Plains; Early Prehistoric 10 000-5750 BC; Early Middle Prehistoric I (EMPI) c. 6500-3000 BC; Early Middle Prehistoric II (EMPII) 2800-1000 BC; Late Middle Prehistoric 1000 BC-AD 200; Late Prehistoric AD 200-1750; Summary: the 'New Society'
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Prehistoric game drive systems in the Rocky Mountains and High Plains areas of ColoradoIntroduction; Physiography and climatology of the area; Summary of the archaeology of the area; The hunting-and-gathering lifestyle; Benedict's high-altitude sites; The Water Dog Divide game drive system, 5CF373; The Peaker site, 5CF128; The Roberts buffalo jump, 5LR100; The Merino site, 5LO122; Discussion and conclusions; 12 Prehistoric mountain sheep hunting in the central Rocky Mountains of North America; Introduction; Historic accounts of mountain sheep in Wyoming
Description / Table of Contents:
Pleistocene mountain sheep in Wyoming
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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