Research Catalog

Title

Caribou and reindeer hunters of the northern hemisphere / edited by Lawrence J. Jackson and Paul T. Thacker.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Avebury, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jackson, Lawrence J.
• Thacker, Paul T.

Description

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Contains 12 articles which provide a variety of perspectives on (Rangifer) (caribou/reindeer) and its use by prehistoric peoples in the northern latitudes of both the Old and New Worlds. Papers cover such topics as the inherent biases in the "man the hunter-woman the collector" view of Upper Paleolithic and Paleo-Indian cultures; the behavior patterns of </Rangifer/> and humans in the New World; the Paleo-Indian record of the earliest Gainey phase in Ontario and Michigan; and a variety of Upper Paleolithic situations in Europe. Lacks an index.

Series Statement

Worldwide archaeology series ; 6

Uniform Title

Worldwide archaeology series ; 6.

Subject

• Hunting, Prehistoric > Northern Hemisphere
• Prehistoric peoples > Food > Northern Hemisphere
• Caribou hunting > Northern Hemisphere > History
• Reindeer hunting > Northern Hemisphere > History
• Caribou hunting
• Hunting, Prehistoric
• Prehistoric peoples > Food
• Reindeer hunting
• Jagd
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Rentierjäger
• Jagers
• Rendieren
• Chasseurs-cueilleurs préhistoriques > Hémisphère nord
• Northern Hemisphere
• Nördliche Hemisphäre

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword. Introduction / Thomas F. Lynch -- Large kill sites and the potential for illuminating provisioning behavior: preliminary thoughts and expectations / Dienje Kenyon -- Causes of barren-ground caribou migrations and implications to hunters / Douglas C. Heard -- Modelling mythologies of early human adaptation in the northern hemisphere / Marianne P. Stopp -- Rangifer herd behavior: seasonality of hunting in the Magdalenian of the Paris Basin / J.G. Enloe and F. David -- Reconstructing 'l'age du renne' / Ariane Burke and Anne Pike-Tay -- The significance of Rangifer as a human prey species during the central European Upper Paleolithic / Paul Thacker -- The Gainey and Butler sites as focal points for caribou and people / Donald B. Simons -- Caribou range and early paleo-Indian settlement disposition in southern Ontario, Canada / Lawrence J. Jackson -- Late glacial reindeer hunters along the French Pyrenees / Lawrence Guy Straus -- On the trail to the caribou house: some reflections on Innu caribou hunters in northern Ntessinan (Labrador) / Stephen Loring -- The tyranny continues: ethnographic analogy and eastern paleo-Indians / Mary Ann Levine -- Reindeer distributions in the Late Paleolithic of the Ukraine: results of research / Vadim Cohen.

ISBN

• 185628705X
• 9781856287050

LCCN

96080380

OCLC

• ocm37273707
• 37273707
• SCSB-506750

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library