ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an introduction to the phenomenon of traps in the North American Great Plains, Great Basin, Rocky Mountains, and Arctic/Subarctic regions. It is followed by a consideration of the settings and environmental conditions in these main North American regions. This background sets the stage for a discussion of the main target species, whose hunting is then exemplified and illustrated, respectively by eyewitness accounts of trap use and pictographic as well as petroglyphic evidence.
