Interesting that Caribou fences were used in Canada by the Inuit up until the early 20th century in pretty much the same way as the blinkerwall. I guess once you find the most effective method of hunting them it continues to work for 13,000 years. I wonder if they keep looking if they will find an associated hunt camp or processing site similar to Head-smashed-in-Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta. I expect that the Blinkerwall was used on an annual basis to harvest a large number of animals at once and it was probably used by a tribe rather than a single family unit and it was probably used for several generations.
Very good analogy... It is interesting indeed. We wonder this... was it shared knowledge, or was it trial and error of the people of that time? Interesting to us because the Northern Europeans of that time used the same techniques as the Inuit as you mentioned.
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Interesting that Caribou fences were used in Canada by the Inuit up until the early 20th century in pretty much the same way as the blinkerwall. I guess once you find the most effective method of hunting them it continues to work for 13,000 years.
I wonder if they keep looking if they will find an associated hunt camp or processing site similar to Head-smashed-in-Buffalo Jump in southern Alberta. I expect that the Blinkerwall was used on an annual basis to harvest a large number of animals at once and it was probably used by a tribe rather than a single family unit and it was probably used for several generations.
Very good analogy... It is interesting indeed. We wonder this... was it shared knowledge, or was it trial and error of the people of that time? Interesting to us because the Northern Europeans of that time used the same techniques as the Inuit as you mentioned.