Hunters of the Recent Past (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)

Hardcover, xx + 415 pages, b&w figures & maps in text, NOT ex-library. Fine interior, clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards are slightly crooked with a touch of shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1. Meat in Due Season: Timing of Communal Hunts [Communal Hunting; Seasonality: General Considerations & in Large Mammals; Ethnographic Data; Why Communal Hunting] 2. Corralling: Evidence from Upper Paleolithic Cave Art [Lascaux; Altamira; Depiction of Drive Lanes & Corrals; Ritual & Economics; Economy of Corralling] 3. Mammoth Hunting in the New World [Mammoth Herd Demographics; Utilization of Mammoth Bone, Old & New World; Butchering Strategies: Actualistic Studies; Hunting Strategies; Lange-Ferguson Site] 4. Paleoindians & Proboscideans: Ecological Determinants of Selectivity in the Southwestern United States [Optimal Foraging & Prey Selection; Methods; Evaluation of Factors Relative to Proboscidean Procurement; Hypothetical Orientation; Analysis & Discussion] 5. Taphonomic Provenience & Mammoth Bone Modification [Taphonomic Context & Provenience as Concepts; Applications] 6. Was Early Man in North America a Big Game Hunter?; 7. Alternative Hunting Strategies in Plains Paleoindian Adaptations [Lamb Spring Site; Paleoindian Kill Sites on the Northern Plains] 8. Maple Leaf Site: Implications of the Analysis of Small-Scale Bison Kills [Site Setting; Stratigraphy & Dating; Herd Composition & Seasonality; Spatial Patterning; Butchering Patterns] 9. Thoughts on the Structure & Function of Drive Lane Systems at Communal Buffalo Jumps [Historic & Ethnographic Records; Head-Smashed-In Drive Lanes; Drive Lane Function; Oasis Theory] 10. Communal Bison Hunters of the Northern Plains [Importance of Pemmican; Role of the Bow & Arrow; Facts of Life & Cultural Evolution on the Northern Plains; Early Prehistoric 10000-5750 BC; Early Middle Prehistoric I (EMPI) c 6500-3000 BC & II (EMPII) 2800-1000 BC; Late Middle Prehistoric 1000 BC-AD 200; Late Prehistoric AD 200-1750; 'New Society'] 11 Prehistoric Game Drive Systems in the Rocky Mountains & High Plains Areas of Colorado [Physiography & Climatology of the Area; Summary of the Archaeology of the Area; Hunting-and-Gathering Lifestyle; Benedict's High-Altitude Sites; Water Dog Divide Game Drive System 5CF373; Peaker Site 5CF128; Roberts Buffalo Jump 5LR100; Merino Site 5LO122] 12 Prehistoric Mountain Sheep Hunting in the Central Rocky Mountains of North America [Historic Accounts of Mountain Sheep in Wyoming; Pleistocene Mountain Sheep in Wyoming; Mountain Sheep Habits That Influence Hunting Strategies; Archaeological Evidence for Communal Mountain Sheep Trapping in Northwest Wyoming; Killing Mountain Sheep in the Catch-Pens; Mountain Sheep Ram Skulls in Trees; Dating the Sheep Traps & Other Wooden Structures] 13 Late Prehistoric Model for Communal Utilization of Pronghorn Antelope in the Northwestern Plains Region North America [Lost Terrace Setting & Cultural Context; Archaeofauna; Prey Shifting as a Subsistence Adaptation] 14 World Rangifer Communal Hunting [Rangifer Subspecies & Their Behavior; North American Communal Caribou Hunting; Eurasian Communal Reindeer Hunting] 15 Communal Hunting as a Prerequisite for Caribou (Wild Reindeer) as a Human Resource; 16 Moa Procurement: Communal or Individual Hunting? [Methodology; Archaeological Remains & Nature of Hunting; Study Area; Results: Site Types in the Sample & Hunting Technique] 17 Pre-Hispanic Mammal Exploitation & Hunting Strategies in the Eastern Pampa Subregion of Argentina [Environmental Aspects; Archaeological Background; Land Mammal Exploitation During Historic Times; Models of Exploitation] 18 Fuego-Patagonian Bone Assemblages & Problem of Communal Guanaco Hunting [Published Faunal Reports; Models for Faunal Analysis; Guanaco Meat Utility Model; Analysis; Communal Land Mammal Hunting] 19 Humans and Terrestrial & Sea Mammals, Peninsula Mitre, Tierra del Fuego; Index. …