Hunters of the Buried Years : The Prehistory of the Prairie Provinces

Hardcover, no dust jacket issued, 94 pages, 5x7 in - 13x18 cm, B&W illustrations and photographs. Illustrated by Ralph D. Carson.

Corners rubbed. Front cover bowed, back cover lightly stained with joint starting. Spine rubbed at head and heel. Pp.37-41 lightly stained near margin, all pages readable. Front endpapers, title page, and p.5 stamped by previous owner, previous seller price written in ink on ffep.

From the early 1930s through the late 1970s, Saskatchewan’s School Aids & Text Book Publishing Co. printed texts for K-12 classes. This volume, authored by American archaeologist Alice Beck Kehoe (whose husband, Thomas, served as Provincial Archaeologist of Saskatchewan in the early 1960s), introduces key concepts and evidence regarding prehistory on the Canadian prairies. Kehoe summarizes the fields of anthropology and archaeology, explains the process of site excavation, and analyzes artifacts to describe the life and culture of early inhabitants of the prairies (focusing particularly on hunting/fishing). Clear and succinct, Kehoe’s writing is an introduction both to prairie archaeology and the peoples whose lives formed the region’s prehistory. No publication date indicated, but MaryLynn Gagne’s “Print, Profit and Pedagogy” article examining the School Aids & Text Book Publishing Co. (in “Saskatchewan History” Vol. 27) identifies the book as being published in 1962.