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Author Brink, Jack.

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

Publication Info. Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-334) and index.
Contents Buffalo jump -- Buffalo -- A year in the life -- Killing field -- Rounding up -- Great kill -- Cooking up the spoils -- Going home -- End of the buffalo hunt -- 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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.)
Buffalo jump -- Alberta.
Buffalo jump.
Alberta.
Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Alberta.
Indians of North America -- Hunting.
Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Great Plains.
Great Plains.
Indians of North America -- Alberta -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Antiquities.
American bison hunting -- History.
American bison hunting.
History.
American bison.
American bison.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alberta.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Alberta -- Antiquities.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump National Historic Site (Alta.)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Title Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains
Other Form: Print version: Brink, Jack. Imagining Head-Smashed-In. Edmonton, Alta. : AU Press, Athabaska University, ©2008 9781897425046 189742504X (DLC) 2008472771 (OCoLC)190776455
ISBN 9781897425091 (electronic book)
1897425090 (electronic book)
9781897425046 (paperback)
9781897425008 (bound)
189742504X (paperback)
1897425007 (bound)