Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains

ISBN-13: 9781897425046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 360 str.

Jack W. Brink

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Winner of the 2009 SAA Public Audience Book AwardFor millennia, Aboriginal hunters on the North American Plains used their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour to drive their quarry over cliffs. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. By way of example, he draws on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.