The tone is anecdotal, including weaving stories about animals from the author's past with interpretations of fossil taphonomy. Chapter 3 provides a brief introduction to the study of human hunting in the American west, introducing the reader to the methods and sites at which the author has worked. In the 2nd chapter, “The education of a hunter,” the author tells the story of his family and his experience and how it led him to spend his career trying to better understand early human hunting. The 1st lays out the background of the issue, outlining the prehistoric large mammal fauna of western North America and the chronology of human occupation.
This book recounts a life spent trying to correct this.
In particular he felt that these studies and their products such as paintings and museum dioramas did not incorporate any realistic consideration of how animals behave when hunted by humans. Frisson worked with professional fossil hunters and archaeologists and eventually decided to attend graduate school, where he found a gap between what the literature described as early human hunting and his personal experience with hunting and animal behavior. While hunting and herding cattle, he developed a vocational interest in archaeology and explored sites where he found animal skulls left with human burials, weapons, human remains, arrowheads, and bison jumps. He hunted for himself and as a guide and over 7 decades experimented with firearms, bows, and spears. His paternal grandparents established a ranch in 1901 in north-central Wyoming, where he was raised hunting and working livestock.
He builds this case based on his life spent pursuing this understanding in the western regions of North America.įrison comes by his experience legitimately. Woven with family and personal history as warp and zooarchaeology as weft, George Frison uses his experiences of 70-plus years to make the case that an intimate understanding of hunting and animal behavior is essential to understanding hunting by early humans. This book is a personal accounting of the arc of one talented, inspired life.
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