Interesting bear hunt pictograph with the skiing and gait change of the bear.
Also, boats - multi-man boats. Is it too much reading into it that they had figureheads of some sort? This would suggest wooden boats with keel and planks, rather than skin boats.
“Also, boats - multi-man boats. Is it too much reading into it that they had figureheads of some sort? This would suggest wooden boats with keel and planks, rather than skin boats.”
Dale Drinnon (see his excellent blog at frontiersofanthropology.blogspot.com ) claims that the first such boats were just moose hides stretched over a wooden frame, with the moose heads left on; and that the custom of having a carved head at the prow descends from this.