Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brink, Jack (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton, Alta. : AU Press, Athabaska University c2008.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
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.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.)
Alberta > Antiquities.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746162906719

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