Posted on 09/17/2008 10:04:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Clovis points are the hallmark of one of America's earliest cultures: the Paleoindians. Since archaeologists found Clovis points lodged in the skeleton of a mammoth, they have viewed Paleoindians as big-game hunters par excellence... This macho view of Paleoindian prehistory has prevailed even though surprisingly little evidence exists to support it.
In a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, Kent State University archaeologist Mark Seeman and several co-researchers wrote of Paleoindian stone tools from the Nobles Pond site in Stark County.
They reported the discovery of blood residue on eight Clovis points. Four were stained with the blood of a variety of relatively large mammals, including both cervid (caribou, deer or elk) and bison blood on one point, bison blood on another, bear blood on a third, and white-tailed deer blood on the fourth. But the blood on the other four points was rabbit...
Among the Cree Indians of northern Ontario, for example, hare was one of the most important animals in their diet. One Cree man told the anthropologist Bruce Winterhalder that his family had lived "almost entirely on hare" for most of one winter.
Hares typically are caught in snares that can be set by women and adolescents. So another reason why the importance of hare blood on Clovis points, or knives, should not be diminished is that it might provide a window onto the contributions of these often-forgotten members of Paleoindian societies.
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Rabbit is better for you than chicken, easier to clean, and cheaper to raise. If Americans could get past the “cute little bunny” syndrome, Perdue would be shaking in their boots.
Run away! Run away!
Rabbit and hare fur was cut into strips and then tightly woven together in a simple technique called nallbinding. The Cree and other northern tribes use these all winter. There is nothing that is quite so warm. they are completely coldproof.
They soon wear out and lose their fur and new ones have to be made. So you have new coats and caps being made constantly for a winter band of say fifteen to twenty individuals.
Also, rabbit and hare meat has almost no fat and people cannot subsist on them entirely. they get a condition known as ‘rabbit sickness’. Extreme weakness caused by lack of fat. So the rabbit meat has to be supplemented by at least fish with some fat, like sturgeon, if nothing else.
I have seen these woven rabbit strips in a museum in San Antonio Texas and have seen the coats and hats made in northern Ontario/Manitoba, so I know they were extensively used.
Also I recently read that in the camps of the Siberian mammoth hunters there were enormous amounts of rabbit bones. Same thing -— very warm coats and hats.
I wonder why anthropologists/archaeologists haven't realized this.
Be vewy vewy quiet because today we’re hunting wabbits!
Especially if you simply insert a garden hose nozzle in a slit between the shoulder blades, and "fill 'er up." I'm always amazed how few experienced, veteran outdoors folk and hunters know this little trick...
Hey, when times is hard you eat what you can git.
‘Sides, bunny is right tasty when properly marinated and char-grilled!
I’ve done it that way before, but I usually don’t carry a garden hose when I’m camping or hiking. I usually do fashioned way of tearing the head off, slitting a back foot and peeling the skin off.
Judging fron the size of Clovis points I’ve seen, those were either mighty large rabbits, or they wasted more meat than a deer hunter with .458 Winchester.
Many years ago, I read an account of a man who hunted rabbits with a 600 Nitro Express (and no, this isn't a joke. Some people are just eccentric.)
I also wonder if it wasn’t just the ancient hunters saying “Well, we haven’t managed to kill a mammoth today, so let’s just cook up some rabbit stew in the meantime and try again tomorrow”. Lack of fat probably wouldn’t have been a problem, as these people obviously hunted and ate other meat. The rabbits of course weren’t hunted solely for fur, or for food, but they probably were more of an easy food source that came along with really warm clothing material.
Is that Jimmy Carter’s skeleton?
Here in Louisiana we have a delicious rabbit stew; I couldn’t imagine how to spell it, we say “roo-YEE”. I just made one a few weeks ago, and it sure was delicious!! Just add butter beans!
Far less dangerous and laborious gittin’! Why, in a few thousand years you could probably teach a wolf to bring you food. Meanwhile, trap and fish, and leave the big critters for holiday meals.
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