Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Download or Read eBook Imagining Head-Smashed-In PDF written by Jack Brink and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Jack Brink |
| Publisher | : Athabasca University Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781897425046 |
| ISBN-13 | : 189742504X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Imagining Head-Smashed-In by : Jack Brink
Book excerpt: "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
