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AUTOR(ES) ERNEST S. BURCH
ANO 1972
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO American Antiquity
ISSN 0002-7316
E-ISSN 2325-5064
EDITORA Elsevier (Netherlands)
DOI 10.2307/278435
CITAÇÕES 26
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 4702f3de6c53ad2066494eb2d8a646cf

Resumo

The caribou/wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) has been a major resource for many human populations in northern North America and Eurasia for tens of thousands of years. The species is generally represented by prehistorians as providing an ample, easily exploited, and highly reliable resource base for humans. In this paper a number of specific assumptions leading to this view are examined in the light of new data on North American caribou and caribou-hunting Eskimo groups. The conventional picture is found to be largely untenable.

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