[Marius3188]

If only the reporter could have given us the 'base' date of the current theory.

[Marius3188]

ping

Could you add me to the GGG?

[muawiyah]

Not sure the reporter understands the issue enough to pick up the relevant parts of the discussion.

When DeSoto visited Angel Mounds and Terre Haute, (circa 1541) the folks there informed him that no one permanently lived out on the Great Planes to the far NW because there were entirely too many animals there to make that possible.

On the other hand, if Indians were actually living in large groups in Manitoba, it might have had something to do with the need to build large palisades to keep out the buffalo and the wolves and mountain lions that preyed on them.

That wouldn't be news.

[GeronL]

if only it made some kind of sense.... what did they do before they roamed?? crawled?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Cannoneer No. 4]

Does anybody remember the Sheepeaters? They were a Shoshonean tribe that lived around Yellowstone Park and hunted bighorn sheep.

Then there were the Diggers in the Nevada desert.

With only dogs as draft animals, whatever tribes lived out on the high plains following the buffalo herd could not have accumulated many possessions. They would have much the same standard of living as Sheepeaters and Diggers, although they ate better.

I seem to recall the Blackfeet as the original northern plains buffalo hunters. Everybody else came out in historical times. Or do I misremember?

[SunkenCiv]

Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer
by Kenneth M. Ames
September/October 1999

On September 19, 1997, the New York Times announced the discovery of a group of earthen mounds in northeastern Louisiana. The site, known as Watson Brake, includes 11 mounds 26 feet high linked by low ridges into an oval 916 feet long. What is remarkable about this massive complex is that it was built around 3400 B.C., more than 3,000 years before the development of farming communities in eastern North America, by hunter-gatherers, at least partly mobile, who visited the site each spring and summer to fish, hunt, and collect freshwater mussels... The discovery of complex hunter-gatherers, a kind of society and economy now virtually extinct, is one of the major archaeological advances of the last two decades. As a discovery it is not widely appreciated, but it shows us that the range of human social and economic organization was much greater in the past than we had once thought.

[blam]

"If only the reporter could have given us the 'base' date of the current theory."

That's the first thing I noticed too. Welcome to the GGG group.