Hot rocks as scarce resources: The use, re-use and abandonment of heating stones at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 48, Issue 186, 2003, Pages 85-104

  Brink, Jack W ^a   Dawe, Bob ^a  

^a ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bison processing; Boiling pits; Boiling stones; Thermally altered stones

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744446012     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2003.11949298     Document Type: Article

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