![]() ![]() These mammals are icons of the Paleoindian period: woolly mammoths, giant ancestral species of bison, mountain sheep, pronghorn, elk and deer. His excavations of the Glenrock, Casper, Agate Basin, Carter-McGee and Mill Iron sites, and many others, have usually involved the recovery of the bones of big (or "mega") game alongside stone projectile points believed to have been used by hunters who managed to survive in the last Ice Age environments of North America. National Academy of Sciences, Frison has, after a long life full of vicissitudes, become the unquestioned dean of Paleoindian specialists on the Great Plains. ![]() ![]() His fascinating and instructive new book, Survival by Hunting, is part personal memoir, part overview of Paleoindian adaptations, and part guide to the hunting of Pleistocene and Holocene mammals on the High Plains and in the Rocky Mountains.Ĭhild of the Great Depression, rancher, hunter and member of the U.S. George Frison is an original of American archaeology, a towering figure in the field of Plains prehistory. Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey. ![]()
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