ANT241Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pemmican, Equus Conversidens, Travois
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Aboriginal people adapted to plains (northern extensions include southern provinces such as. Humans arrived on foot and were known as pedestrian hunters. Used stone tip spears to hunt, had a lever attached to the spear and was used my most aboriginal people. Indigenous horse (equus conversidens) driven to extinction by human hunters. Humans contributed to the extinction of these species (the horses) also environmental contributions. Bison(buffalo) didn"t get extinct because it reproduced. Head-smashed-in most famous one (5,800 bp) located in southern alberta. Trickery and deception were employed to make the buffalos go ina certain direction to fall of the cliff. All animals were killed, whether they were used or not. Survivors were killed so that they could not inform the others of the deceptions used. Humans were scared that surviving buffalos would figure out the methods used to steer them in one direction and tell the other animals so they were killed.
