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Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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Winner of the 2009 SAA Public Audience Book Award For millennia, Aboriginal hunters on the North American Plains used their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour to drive their quarry over cliffs. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major study of the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported before and after European contact. By way of example, he draws on his 25 years excavating at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in southwestern Alberta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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“The past is the ultimate abyss.”

bibliothecarivs I have always loved this quote from Simon Schama: 'Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.' 4mo
Purpleness @bibliothecarivs I love that! 4mo
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Last book of 2023: Persuasion, the last in my Jane Austen reread.
First book started in 2024: Finally getting around to Imagining Head-Smashed-In, which I think I bought in 2018.
#lastfirst @BookNAround

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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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Picked up a souvenir this weekend!

Amandajoy I got lost in Canada with some friends once and came across a place called Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump. Is this referencing a place in Canada? (edited) 6y
Purpleness @Amandajoy Yes, it‘s a UNESCO heritage site in Alberta. It‘s a place where the Indigenous peoples used to hunt buffalo by driving them over the cliff, and they have great museum onsite. The name comes from a story about someone who decided to watch the hunt from the bottom of the cliff thinking they were sheltered enough. 6y
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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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Brink is respectful and thorough in his research, as far as I can tell. The bit about the building of the interpretive centre was interesting, and I liked that he admitted to mistakes he and his team made in the process.

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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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Went for a shower, came back to find the Mister Mister had somehow turned on my ereader. #BunniesofLitsy

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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | Jack Brink
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Went to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump today, finally managed to get a book on Native archaeology (which has positive blurbs from actual First Nations people).

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