The function of ice-gliders and their distribution in time and space across the northern plains and parklands

From: Plains Anthropologist | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Hamilton, Scott; Meyer, David; Nicholson, Sylvia; Nicholson, B A | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Based upon early ethnographic accounts, the ice-glider was a recreational artifact, with limited distribution in time and space, first appearing in the early historic period and confined to the Missouri River drainage. Recent research has shown a more broad distribution across both time and space, extending its use into the precontact period and extending its distribution northward into the Northern Plains and the adjacent Parklands of Canada. Its earliest dated occurrence is ...

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