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Deer Skins and Hunting Territories Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

E. Randolph Turner  and
Robert S. Santley
E. Randolph Turner
Affiliation:
Regional Preservation Office, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
Robert S. Santley
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Abstract

Gramly (1977) has recently argued that competition over deer hids was the primary variable stimulating conflict and warfare among the Huron during Late Woodland times. This variable, as well as two others dismissed by him, is reviewed here.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 810 - 816
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1979

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