River crossings as principal points of human/reindeer relationship in Eurasia

• Published in: Rangifer
• Main Author: Baskin, Leonid M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2003
• Subjects: reindeer; reindeer-human; reindeer hunters; river crossings; behaviour; indigenous people; Rangifer tarandus; sustainable use; Reindeer River; Slaughter; Rangifer; Taymyr; Tundra; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1653; https://doi.org/10.7557/2.23.5.1653

Since prehistoric time, indigenous peoples throughout Eurasia have hunted reindeer from boats when the animals were swimming across rivers. A number of landscape peculiarities and reindeer behavior features determine the phenomena of mass reindeer river crossings at a few points. Hunting at river cr...