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Chipewyan drift fences and shooting-blinds in the central Barren Grounds
Megaliths to medicine wheels : boulder structures in archaeology • Calgary, Alta. • Published In 1981 • Pages: 171-185
By: Morrison, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is an archaeological survey of various stone game-drive features (e.g., shooting-blinds, drift fences, etc.) found along the Elk and upper Thelon Rivers in the eastern district of Mackenzie. Morrison relates these stone structures to similar features employed in caribou hunting by the historic Chipewyan population of the area and their forebearers of the Taltheilei tradition. He suggests further that the large drift-fence sites investigated '…probably [were] used by briefly assembled midsummer macrobands, while smaller sites could be used later in the season when both the caribou herds and the hunting bands had dispersed' (p. 171).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Hunting and trapping
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- prehistoric period (Taltheilei tradition) - late eighteenth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Elk River, upper Thelon River, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] David Morrison
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians