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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815986303321

Autore

Lemke Ashley K. <1985->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2022

ISBN

9781623499235

9781623499228

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages)

Collana

Peopling of the Americas Publications

Disciplina

306.364

Soggetti

Hunting and gathering societies

Prehistoric peoples - Material culture

Hunting, Prehistoric - Equipment and supplies

Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.) Antiquities

Great Lakes Region (North America) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--