Climatic Challenges and Changes: A Little Ice Age Period Response to Adversity-The Vickers Focus Forager/Horticulturalists Move On

Nicholson, B. A., Wiseman, Dion, Hamilton, Scott, Nicholson, Sylvia, Plains Anthropologist

Vickers focus people are believed to have practiced a lifeway based upon foraging and gardening in the Tiger Hills, a glacial-moraine upland, in southwestern Manitoba. It has also been argued that Vickers focus society was more socially complex than earlier hunter-gatherer groups in the region relying almost exclusively on bison hunting. There is evidence to suggest limited stratification in Vickers focus culture and clear evidence of a widespread exchange network that brought a variety of exotic materials and finely made ceramic vessels into the Lowton site. Other smaller seasonal sites have been identified nearby. These have been interpreted as satellites of the Lowton site. These …

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Publication information: Article title: Climatic Challenges and Changes: A Little Ice Age Period Response to Adversity-The Vickers Focus Forager/Horticulturalists Move On. Contributors: Nicholson, B. A. - Author, Wiseman, Dion - Author, Hamilton, Scott - Author, Nicholson, Sylvia - Author. Journal title: Plains Anthropologist. Volume: 51. Issue: 199 Publication date: August 2006. Page number: 325+. © Plains Anthropologist Nov 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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