Research Catalog

Title

The architecture of hunting : the built environment of hunter-gatherers and its impact on mobility, property, leadership, and labor / Ashley Lemke.

Author

Lemke, Ashley K., 1985-

Publication

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

xi, 179 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

"Combining underwater archaeology, terrestrial archaeology, and ethnographic and historical research, The Architecture of Hunting investigates the creation and use of hunting architecture by hunter-gatherers. Hunting architecture -- including blinds, drive lanes, and fishing weirs -- is a global phenomenon found across a broad spectrum of cultures, time, geography, and environments. Relying on similar behaviors in species such as caribou, bison, guanacos, antelope, and gazelles, cultures as diverse as Sami reindeer herders, the Inka, and ancient bison hunters on the North American plains have utilized such structures, combined with strategically situated landforms, to insure adequate food supplies and to successfully maintain a nomadic way of life. Ashley K. Lemke explores hunting architecture as a form of human niche construction and considers the myriad ways such built structures affect hunter-gatherer lifeways. Her research presents examples of hunting architecture from across the globe and how they influence forager mobility, territoriality, property, leadership, and labor aggregation. The book goes on to outline the archaeological investigation of hunting architecture in the past and provides new data on Ice Age caribou hunting structures preserved underneath the Great Lakes: some of oldest hunting architecture on the planet"--

Subject

• Hunting and gathering societies
• Prehistoric peoples > Material culture
• Hunting, Prehistoric > Equipment and supplies
• Hunting, Prehistoric > Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)
• Hunting, Prehistoric > Great Lakes Region (North America)
• Underwater archaeology > Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.)
• Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
• Agriculture, Prehistoric
• Technology and civilization
• Antiquities
• Hunting, Prehistoric
• Underwater archaeology
• Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.) > Antiquities
• Great Lakes Region (North America) > Antiquities
• Great Lakes Region
• Lake Huron

Note

• "Peopling of the Americas publication" -- half-title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Hunting architecture -- Rangifer hunting and hunters -- The ancient Great Lakes: paleoenvironment and archaeology throughout the Pleistocene-Holocene transition -- Hunting architecture underwater: interdisciplinary Investigations under Lake Huron -- Interpreting prior research: a model of foraging lifeways on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge -- Testing the model: new methods and results -- Conclusions.

Call Number

JFF 22-438

ISBN

• 9781623499228
• 1623499224

LCCN

• 2021034221
• 40031081147

OCLC

1223069533

Author

Lemke, Ashley K., 1985- author.

Title

The architecture of hunting : the built environment of hunter-gatherers and its impact on mobility, property, leadership, and labor / Ashley Lemke.

Publisher

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Lemke, Ashley Kate, 1985- Architecture of hunting First edition. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2021 9781623499235 (DLC) 2021034222

Other Standard Identifier

40031081147

Research Call Number

JFF 22-438