COMMUNAL HUNTS, HUMAN AGGREGATIONS, SOCIAL VARIATION, AND CLIMATIC CHANGE: BISON UTILIZATION BY PREHISTORIC INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Some anthropologists have argued that communal hunts played an important role in the evolution of hominids. Variation in the frequency and timing of bison hunts on the Great Plains has been explained with the Annual, Vore, and Fat Depletion Models. According to the Annual Model, hunts were organized...
Main Author: | FAWCETT, WILLIAM BLOYS |
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Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1987
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8710451 |
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