Hunting Traps, Jumps, and Kill Sites

Matthew E. Hill

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00104-X

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Hunting Traps, Jumps, and Kill Sites

Matthew E. Hill

Reference Module in Social Sciences

Elsevier Inc

2022

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00104-X

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Abstract

Modern human hunters from across the globe have been using traps to hunt large herbivores for tens of thousands of years. While substantial investments in terms of labor and resources, traps significantly increase efficiency and yield from communal hunting of multiple prey. While the physical construction of traps is important, hunting success requires highly coordinated and ritualized actions of large numbers of people.

Trade

Bison

Corals

Drive lines

Great plains

Hunter-gatherers

Hunting

Jumps

Mass kills

Rocky mountains

Spiritualism

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Title: Subtitle: Hunting Traps, Jumps, and Kill Sites
Creators: Matthew E. Hill - Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Resource Type: Encyclopedia entry
Publication Details: Reference Module in Social Sciences
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00104-X
Language: English
Date published: 2022
Academic Unit: Anthropology
Record Identifier: 9984430360302771

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