SOWK 2035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Great Bison Belt, Spear-Thrower, Twine
15 Apr 2020
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Holocene 11700-present: we see climatic and environmental conditions settling into patterns. Younger dryas (big freeze) 12800-11500 bp led to a big drought, caused due to the melting of ice sheets. Significant dump to the ocean, making it salty and interrupts currents. Regional specialization in economies on environmental resources. Changing technology to adapt to new environments. Increasing populations & larger and more stable settlements. Hell gap, wyoming 9000-5500 bce: wetter and cooler back then, was not a kill site. 9000bc grasslands expanded known as the great bison belt. Bison jumps and drives (ways of killing bisons). Humans hunted them in intervals in order so that bisons don"t get used to them and get scared. Pylons of rocks to create a fencing effect to direct the herd. Use decoys and start yelling and ran to direction they wanted to. Olsen-chubbuck site, colorado archaic bison hunt 400 bc: evidence of bisons falling and trampled.
