jack w brink (15 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Illustrated. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condizione: very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Soft cover edition. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. B/w illustrations. 348 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Soft cover edition. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. B/w illustrations. 348 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to inside corners; small 1.5cm crease to bottom back edge; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; How could ancient hunters, lacking horses and firearms, persuade entire herds of bison to gallop to a particular spot on the edge of a cliff and plunge to their deaths? What place did these dramatic perilous events occupy in their economy, culture, and religious practices? These are just a few of the questions archaeologist Jack Brink explore in this book, as he brings the most spectacular and successful food-getting enterprises ever devised to rich and vivid life. Working from eyewitness accounts by early European explorers, thousands of years of archaeological evidence, and ancient stories passed down over generations, Brink puts flesh on the bones of history in this epic, real-life tale of courage, ingenuity, and the struggle to survive.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Colour plates (illustratore). 1st Edition. SUBTITLED : `Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains '. A small b/w map on page 138 of this 342 page volume shows the `drive lanes' - the technology of food gathering that might date back six thousand years. READ more about : Weasel Tail, Pikani elder, gathering basin, Ronald Four Horns, tongues, pounds, Napi, Oldman River, and Kainai Nation. Text assisted by coloured photographs and drawings. Also b/w maps. Cond : Paper wrapper is blue and black with dark brown titling. A dramatic painted bison skull dominates the front cover. Volume, in all SENSES is : clean and crisp and bright. No names, marks, nor wear. Giftable ! QUote (p. 121) : " Playing on known aspects of buffalo behavior, Native hunters employed a great number of tricks to move them into the drive lane complex. Some of them were relatively simple, others exceedingly complicated. An example of ._._._. . ".

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Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dustjacket. 8vo large pp.348. book.

Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Larger 8vo pp. 341, paperback ediiton. "At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land? book.

Condizione: New. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. drawing on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, Canada - a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Num Pages: 400 pages, 150+ illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6147 x 4293 x 21. Weight in Grams: 839. . 2008. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . .

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 342 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. drawing on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, Canada - a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Num Pages: 400 pages, 150+ illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6147 x 4293 x 21. Weight in Grams: 839. . 2008. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

1984. (4to stiff paper covers) Near fine. 256pp. Photographs, illustrations, maps, chart, tables, plans, bibliography. Contributors include Jack Brink, Milt Wright, Bob Dawe, Guy Trott (Preliminary Report on the 1983 Field Season at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta), John H. Brumley (The Laidlaw Site: An Aboriginal Antelope Trap from Southeastern Alberta), Robert J. Dawe (An Experiment in the Thermal Pretreatment of Quartzite), Paul F. Donahue (An Introduction to Archaeology in Alberta in 1983), Daryl Fedje (Archaeological Investigations in Banff National Park-1983), Mark and John W. Ives Fenton (The Stratigraphic Position of Beaver River Sandstone), Margaret Kennedy (Conservation Studies, Highway 3 Realignment Blairmore to Frank, Summary of 1982-83 Work), R.J. Pickard (Interim Report of the 1983 Heritage Resource Inventory and Assessment Project in Jasper National Park), Heinz Pyszczyk (Site Occupation Length As a Factor in Artifact Assemblage Variability and Frequency), Robert Vance (Bibliography of Paleoenvironmental Studies in Alberta). Publisher series: Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 23. Locale: Alberta; Banff National Park--Alberta; Beaver River--Alberta; Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump--Alberta; Jasper National Park--Alberta; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Archaeology).