Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: William J. Toman
Taken: September 4, 2010
Caption: Hunting Marker
Additional Description: Agriculture was important, but hunting remained a critical part of diet and lifestyle. Hunting represented an important source of protein, and the animal bones themselves provided extremely useful raw materials to fashion into tools.

The vast majority of animal bones found at the site are deer, and there is little question that deer remain the primary source of meat. Nonetheless, elk, raccoon, beaver, muskrat, passenger pigeon, and fox were also hunted on a regular basis. Most hunting was done by means of bows-and-arrows, where small triangular points were hafted to wooden shafts to form arrows. Since game is available seasonally, we think that they focused their energies on particular game in particular seasons. Even assuming this is the case, it is also true that hunting would have continued all [illegible].

Photo caption: Hunting
A selection of arrow heads [illegible].
Submitted: September 29, 2010, by William J. Toman of Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p129893
File Size: 3.304 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.