A new mode of performing this activity led the “Besant phase” to be replaced by the “Old Women’s phase.” This activity names an ancient site found by the archaeologists Sigurd Olsen and Gerald Chubbuck. The former slave George McJunkin studied this activity at a site where he found the first example of “Folsom points.” This activity was conducted at a place whose name means “deep kettle of blood.” According to tradition, exceptional skill in this activity inspired the name of the leader “Poundmaker.” This activity, which was conducted at sites like Ulm Pishkun and Head-Smashed-In, furnished the material needed for the traditional preparation of pemmican. This activity declined when its target’s population fell from 60 million to less than one thousand in the late 1800s. For 10 points, name this activity that Plains Indians conducted at namesake “jumps” to acquire hides and meat. ■END■
ANSWER: bison hunting [or buffalo hunting or other equivalents; accept bison jumps or buffalo jumps; accept killing, capturing, corralling, butchering, stalking, pursuing, pounding, or equivalent answers in place of “hunting”; accept Olsen–Chubbuck Bison Kill Site; prompt on hunting, killing, capturing, corralling, butchering, stalking, pursuing, pounding, or equivalents by asking “what quarry?”] (The first sentence refers to the adoption of the bow and arrow.)
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