Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Athabasca University Press)

Jack W Brink

ISBN 10: 189742504X / ISBN 13: 9781897425046

Published by Au Press, Edmonton, 2008

About this Item

Larger 8vo pp. 341, paperback ediiton. "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?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Athabasca University Press)
• Publisher: Au Press, Edmonton
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189742504X
• ISBN 13: 9781897425046
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Native Studies

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Synopsis

For 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, Canada – a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

About the Author

Jack W. Brink is Archaeology Curator at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. from the University of Alberta. His interests also include the study of rock art images of the northern Plains, and he enjoys working with Aboriginal communities on heritage issues.