A 9,000-year-old caribou hunting structure beneath Lake Huron

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6911-6915

  O'Shea, John M ^a   Lemke, Ashley K ^a   Sonnenburg, Elizabeth P ^a   Reynolds, Robert G ^b   Abbott, Brian D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c Nautilus Marine Group International LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hunter gatherer subsistence; Underwater archaeology; Virtual world simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTUMN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINDEER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

HUNTER-GATHERER SUBSISTENCE; UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY; VIRTUAL WORLD SIMULATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GREAT LAKES REGION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LAKES; MEAT; MICHIGAN; REINDEER;

EID: 84900501114     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404404111     Document Type: Article

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