Hi all, and thanks for the helpful replies! Some of you wanted me to forward the replies, so here is a list of the references I got: Morel, P. (1993) Une chasse à l'ours brun il y a 12'000 ans : nouvelle découverte à la grotte du Bichon (La Chaux-de-Fonds). Archäologie der Schweiz, 16 : 110-117. http://www.archeologie-neuchateloise.ch/shop/archeologie/archeologie-neuchateloise-42/ McLaren, Duncan, Rebecca J. Wigen, Quentin Mackie and Daryl W. Fedje (2005) Bear Hunting at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition on the Northwestern Coast of North America. Canadian Zooarchaeology 22:3-29. https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/zooarchaeology/article/view/5741 Hallowell, A. Irving (1926) Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere. American Anthropologist 28(1):1-175. Barnett, H.G. (1975) The Coast Salish of British Columbia. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. (p. 104) Morice, O.M.I. (1910). The Great Déné Race. Chapter XI: Hunting. Anthropos 5(1): 113-142. [see p. 117 for reference to smoking-out bears] ------------------- Jørgen Rosvold<http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/jorgen.rosvold> Frozen Fauna<http://blogg.vm.ntnu.no/frozenfauna>: http://blogg.vm.ntnu.no/frozenfauna/ Hunting domestic reindeer<http://www.ntnu.edu/museum/hunting-domestic-reindeer> NTNU University Museum Department of Archaeology and Cultural History NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Office: +47 73592136 Mobile: +47 95279789 Adress: Jørgen Rosvold NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet NO-7491 Trondheim Norway